Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
The Amendments only affect legal citizens of the US.
That's interesting to hear. So non-US citizens who are a accused of a crime in the USA have no rights to legal representation or a trial?

Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
What kind of treatment would you suggest for a person guilty of terrorism?
My suggestion: Since America seems to have a near obsession with the perceived great value of these amendments, I suggest that they should be applied consistently to everybody who finds himself/herself on American soil, whether a citizen, a tourist, business traveller or an individual kidnapped by the CIA from the Middle East (as in the case of the Guantanamo inmates). If these types of rights are not applied consistently, then they are meaningless!

And remember that one mans terrorist / criminal is another mans human rights advocate, Nobel Prize winner or partisan hero. I have no love to spare for terrorists, but Guantanamo is reprehensible in every way; something you'd expect to find in a brutal dictatorship. It's taken down the credibility of the USA several notches in the view of most people in Europe.

Personally I am not in favour of countries kidnapping and abducting citizens of other countries, full stop. But since it has already happened these individuals they should immediately be given a fair trial, or be released. As things stand, you are no better than those countries you put yourself in moral judgement over - only more two-faced.