Secret trials for terrorists, says US judge

[razors edge]

* David Nason, Chicago
* June 29, 2007

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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[Solly Mack]

1. I was about to say...he is headed for the SCOTUS

sounds like someone Bush would love to have

[razors edge]

2. One more * appointment

and we can kiss the the whole notion of America goodbye.

(or maybe we already have.)

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. He's 'libertarian', not liberal...

...and his writings on drugs, adoption, and other subjects, will keep him off the Supreme Court.

[razors edge]

4. I am not familiar with his work,

but that sounds like maybe he is being "mislabeled" to gain a broader acceptance.

[enough]

5. K&R

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Sounds like that "Judge" wants to help the terrorists bring down

our Constitution. People who are that afraid and stupid, make me freakin' sick. I wonder if the judge ever fought for, or sacrificed anything for, that freedom and liberty he wishes to throw away so freely. Freedom and liberty are easy come easy go, for the Chicken-shit Chicken-hawk. This worm went to school all the time people were dying in Korea and Vietnam. All he's ever learned about freedom and liberty came from his school books.