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What Constitutes a Fair Trial?

erobertson Wrote: May 12, 2012 5:25 PM

Black flag? Don't you mean false flag? Black flag means that it is dangerous to be outside. False flag is a military operation where you change your flags to infiltrate the enemy and create chaos. If this were a "false flag opperation", to what end? If it were for a military attack, we could have gone into Iraq or North Korea at any time. Afghanistan is not a country with a military significance beyond breeding ground for terrorism (and that LONG before we put our first foot on that ground).

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What Constitutes a Fair Trial?

The trial of the alleged masterminds of 9/11, which began last week at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will address some of the most profound issues of our era. Are natural rights truly inalienable, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, or can the government take them away from those it hates or fears? Does the Constitution protect the rights of all persons who come in contact with the government, or does it protect only certain Americans, as the government argues? Can the government deny a person due process by changing the rules retroactively, or...

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