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New York Trials: Par for the Terrorist Course

Posted on November 28, 2009, 9:47 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

So it is far from clear that, even if the 9/11 attacks had been carried out by uniformed military, these would have been war crimes. It is, however, beyond doubt a violation of U.S. and New York State criminal law for civilians to attack skyscrapers with airplanes.

Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan conflict, Al Quaeda, Article III Courts, Aryan Nation, Attorney General Eric Holder, Boumediene v. Bush, Constitutional war powers, Eric Holder, Ex Parte Milligan, Guantanamo, Hiroshima, Iraq conflict, Judd Gregg, New York trials, Omar Abdel Rahman, Randy Weaver, Richard Reid, Rudy Giuliani, rules of evidence, Senator Judd Gregg, Sonya Sotomayor, terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, torture
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Unforgivable Laws

Posted on February 27, 2004, 6:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Laws that give law a bad name. They do not and cannot bind the conscience. The only problem: Everyone has his/her own list of unforgivable laws.

Tags: 1935 Nuremberg Laws, A Man for All Seasons, Al Qaeda, anti-abortionist, Apartheid, Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey, Broken Laws, Confederate, conscientious objector, death penalty, draft resistance, draft resister, E.M. Forster, gay marriage, Holocaust, Japanese internment, Jim Crow, John Brown, Mahatma Gandhi, marijuana, Martin Luther King, Mohammad Atta, Nigel Hamilton, Robert Bolt, same sex marriage, secession, Senator Bob Kerrey, slavery, the Draft, Thomas More, Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, Unforgivable Laws, Vietnam War, William Roper
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

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New York Trials: Par for the Terrorist Course

Unforgivable Laws

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