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To: TigerPaw who wrote (10044)	1/27/2006 2:33:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541429

Why not? It's just murder with some theater thrown in. That's true for domestic terrorism. But foreign terrorism doesn't fit our criminal justice system. Our criminal justice system presupposes that those covered by it are members of our broad community, voters who contribute to the making of the laws and who are beneficiaries of those laws so, as good citizens, we respect and adhere to the laws, which means we break few of them and cooperate with the authorities when others break them. We are invested in our laws. This keeps down the number of violations and aids in achieving justice when necessary. Foreign terrorists have no investment in our laws. They may even hate them. So they break them at will. And they can hide in communities who have no investment in our laws and no motivation to support the achievement of justice. They are not us. How would you enforce a subpoena? Protect a witness? Assure that they told the truth at trial? That's assuming you could even investigate the crime and get extradition on the perp. If we try to wedge them awkwardly into our criminal justice system, we get no deterrence, we get no convictions, and we get no justice. It makes no sense.