Well, the history of the US has been one of expanding civil rights beyond what the Founders had in mind.
They certainly didn't contemplate women, blacks or Native Americans having equal rights.
Beating suspects to get confessions wasn't outlawed by the SCOTUS until the 20th century, and even so, it still happens.
I think it's asking too much to expect all Americans to believe that terrorists, who have zero respect for our civil rights, should have civil rights of their own.
Some will, some won't.
That's why I phrase the argument the way I do. We have a legal system and the people in that system have been trained to uphold the system, even when the people who are being processed are murderers, torturers, child molesters, gangsters, no matter how rotten, they get treated the same way because the system doesn't differentiate between the rotten and the semi-rotten and the innocent, except for the final result. |
