Ashcroft on justice

[From Yahoo news:]
>Ashcroft declined to comment on whether any military trials should be
>held in public.

>``I'm not going to comment on specific practices and procedures. When
>you're at war there are times when you share information with the
>enemy, times when you don't share information with the enemy,'' he
>said.

So... the U.S. is considering secret trials? No, that information won't
be divulged; the "enemy" might want to know.

Well, Mr. Ashcroft, _I'd_ like to know. Who am I? Just one of the
chumps who pays your salary, and for whom you supposedly work. One of
the people in whose name you are supposedly acting. You can tell _me_;
I'm not one of the "enemy" ... am I?

Apparently, Ashcroft and Bush are afraid to bring people for trial in
the U.S. Bad guys might target us if we do that. So we'll just hold
the trials somewhere else, perhaps in secret. With sentences carried
out immediately afterward, out back? How do we know, if our own
government won't tell us?

Well, I know that being afraid is no fun, but I think we have to face
this fear square on, not run from it. If we capture someone we think
is guilty of murder, justice requires a fair and open trial, with
evidence of guilt presented to the world in a court of law.

Otherwise, we are no better than the people whom we claim to be
fighting. If that is to be the fate of this nation, it will be a great
shame. A real victory for the bad guys.

JdL