01-02-2010, 01:37 AM
ham Wrote:You may not know it, but "special tribunals" are the greatest violation of democratic principles, for one has to know at all times he'll go through the normal justice system.
Again, it's absurd to continuously bemoan stereotypical "Nazi horror" and to suggest the very same methods...torture, concentration camps, special laws/courts, profiling, military actions targeting civilians etc.
Actually what works is bypassing the trial system totally and taking care of things on the spot. How many of the Chechen rebels in the attack on the theatre in Russia were convicted? That would be none. All hundred or so seem to have died during their arrest.
The problem with civilian trials for military conflicts is that to get what would be judged as a fair trial the defence would be required to have access to the intelligence that led to their arrest.