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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Boston bomber's constitutional rights
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, 1775
Lets take a step back from our anger, our fear, and our thirst for blood following last weeks bombing marathon, and ask ourselves how much power we actually want to give the government in the wake of this horror.
History tells us that when we are at our emotional worst, we are most likely to give away our and especially others constitutional protections. Unfortunately, after the trial ends and the defendants punished, those rights will remain in the hands of the government.
In order to question bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his rights, the Department of Justice is invoking the so-called Quarles exception.
Lets take a step back from our anger, our fear, and our thirst for blood following last weeks bombing marathon, and ask ourselves how much power we actually want to give the government in the wake of this horror.
History tells us that when we are at our emotional worst, we are most likely to give away our and especially others constitutional protections. Unfortunately, after the trial ends and the defendants punished, those rights will remain in the hands of the government.
In order to question bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his rights, the Department of Justice is invoking the so-called Quarles exception.
More here: http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2013/04/22/the-boston-bombers-constitutional-rights/
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The Boston bomber's constitutional rights (Original Post)
LuckyTheDog
Apr 2013
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Trajan
(19,089 posts)1. They read him his rights ...
done deal
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. The Judge read him his rights at bedside in hospital today.
He has agreed to voluntary detention - no bail.
He has been appointed an attorney.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3. It's done. Can we move on?
LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)4. Just sharing some commentary...
... that I found interesting.
Sheesh.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)5. All day long I've been hearing they should throw him in Gitmo
Apparently most people do not realize that criminal procedures protect anyone who is arrested, whether or not they are found guilty later.
Many of my fellow citizens want summary justice and execution, or deportation at least. And many are assuming this is some Jihadist act, which is by no means clear to me. But that's why we have trials.
Gitmo is deeply problematic for a number of reasons, but not the least that it seems to create double-standard. We treat perpetrators or certain crimes or people who have certain backgrounds in an extra-legal way, which only serves to encourage it elsewhere.