Why wasn't there a trial?

[Renew Deal]

Why didn't any of the people in these buildings and airplanes get a trial?

[blondeatlast]

1. +1. All they did was go to work on a beautiful autumn day. nt

[lonestarnot]

2. Damn straight! Why didn't they?

[leftstreet]

3. Uh, the trial is for the accused

But you probably already knew that

[Trajan]

4. Let's not pretend this vicious religious extremist ...

was about to give up ....

[AlabamaLibrul]

6. Saddam Hussein nt

[Trajan]

13. Saddam Hussein what ?

Non sequitur .....

[Hannah Bell]

15. yeah, it's only been 10 years. the evil plans take a long time to hatch.

if he was even really alive.

[Skidmore]

18. OMG,

Does it hurt?

[ecstatic]

7. I'm all for trials, but isn't our nation already strapped for cash? Do we need

to spend millions more to try someone who would undoubtedly be found guilty (unless you are hoping for the possibility that he'd be found innocent--in which case, all hell would break loose in this country).

[ClassWarrior]

10. Yeah!! We can't afford rights and laws anymore!! We need to save what little we have to...

...throw at the Kochs!!

:puke:

NGU.

[Left coast liberal]

20. My 12 year old daughter said this AM,

"It is hard to know how to feel about someone being shot through the head. Even a very bad guy."

That is sort of how I feel but boy is that a FLAMER today on DU.

I just sort of wish we could have perp walked him into the Hague but maybe that would've been less conclusive.

I don't know. What a mess.

[leftstreet]

11. Should we just shoot everyone in jail right now? Save some cash?

Tell me you didn't mean that

[NavyDem]

5. I wish

I could recommend this to infinity!

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[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Bullshit

There is no equivalency there.

The reason he didn't get a trial is the same reason John Dillinger or Robert Mathews didn't get trials - they resisted arrest for their crimes and were shot.

The very first time you contend that a crime is too horrific to allow a trial, you lose the rule of law.

[Renew Deal]

12. You're right

:shrug:

[99th_Monkey]

14. Because you cannot have a trial with a corpse. ~nt

[robinlynne]

16. because he was dead.

[JVS]

17. Trials are 9/10 thinking!

[JoeyT]

19. I'd have liked to see a trial

just for the information we might have gotten out of it.


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