Secret trials for terrorists, says US judge

[babylonsister]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17934.htm

Secret trials for terrorists, says US judge

By David Nason, Chicago

06/28/07 " The Australian" -- -- A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution.

Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with the terrorist threat and the US had "over-invested" in them.

His proposed "big brother" solutions flabbergasted delegates at the Australian Bar Association's biennial conference, where David Hicks's lawyer, Major Michael Mori, is to be awarded honorary life membership.

"We have to fight terrorism with our strengths, and our strengths evolve around technology, including the technology of surveillance," said Justice Posner, a prolific legal scholar who sits on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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[PDJane]

1. frankly, this has my jaw dropping too.......

it's not going to improve the image of the US abroad.

[NNN0LHI]

2. With secret trials how will we really know they ever catch the guilty?

We will have to take our governments word? No thanks.

Don

[Gabi Hayes]

3. I knew without reading the story it was Posner.

we're lucky he's as old as he is; otherwise he'd be sitting on the SCOTUS

he's one of the few people on earth that actually deserve the description of EVIL

look up his opinions on a wide variety of subjects. he's either insane or horribly evil; take your pick