"Civil rights for jihadis" aren't for them, they're for us, because that's what we're about, who we are, the way we do things.
The system has to be kept clean and fair because it's too destructive to the people running the system, otherwise. There's a price to be paid for violating your own moral code, and it's a high one.
Maybe you don't agree with that, but I venture to guess that if you asked every judge in America, every lawyer in America, whether they thought that kangaroo courts and star chambers for suspected terrorists was, on the whole, a good idea, most would say no, that's not the way they do things.
Similarly, if you asked every doctor in America and every nurse in America whether they'd let a suspected terrorist die rather than treat him, they'd say no, that's not the way they do things.
Similarly, we don't expect prison guards to summarily execute prisoners we suspect of being terrorists, it's just not the way we do things. |
