Quote:I'm all for ending definite detention but your suggesting to give enemy combatants federal trials where they would be given civilian rights as a defense? That to me is just as crazy. Military tribunals are for enemy combatants. We should process them faster fine but don't give them civilian rights.

 

Not all of them are enemy combatants.

 

Just because someone is in Guantanamo isn't some kind of an indication of them being a combatant.

 

They're not part of an organized national military so therefore they're terrorists at most, and terrorists are criminals, not soldiers.

 

Give them public defenders, give them trials, even if they're not present for them, and if they're found guilty put them in prison with Timothy McVeigh and the white Republican terrorists that are already in federal prison.

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