01-01-2010, 02:48 PM
DR ANATIDAE Wrote:Me thinks the US Government is quite happy to see a few planes to go down - then it can continue to pontificate. Otherwise they'd get Jack Bauer on the job.
Roosevelt, the great liberal, knew how to handle criminals of war. Give them a military trial and execute them. I believe he claimed sole jurisdiction based on being commander-in-chief of a country at war and told the Supreme Court to butt out.
http://cryptome.org/prez-killer.htm
Quote:In twenty-six days it was over. All eight were sentenced to death. The generals sent their verdict to the President. Roosevelt, acting, in effect, as the court of last resort, confirmed six of the death sentences, but commuted Burger's sentence to life and Dasch's to thirty years for their willingness to betray their comrades. August 8 was set for the executions, which would take place in the electric chair on the third floor of the District of Columbia jail. Eight weeks had elapsed from the night the first saboteurs had landed on Long Island.
8 weeks from landing to execution and they didn't attempt one act of violence.