Military_Tribunals

Military Tribunals Military Tribunals: Unjust and Unnecessary Nearly 200 years ago, the creators of the Constitution wrote that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.” The sixth amendment of the Bill of Rights guarantees that every person who is a United States citizen is entitled to a “speedy and public” trial. Bush’s new proposal of military tribunals is the antithesis of what the sixth amendment guarantees. By lying down new rules that contradict our Constitution, Bush threatens the very foundation that our great nation was built on, which is the foundation of just and fair rights, rights that will be protected under any circumstance regardless of how convenient it would be to ignore them. Tribunals are wrong because they blatantly defy our Constitution. Our tribunals, united, states, trial, constitution, trials, president, people, one, country, bush, tribunal, rights, even, because, rather, public, power, now, military, just, guilt, citizens, way, under, stephen, should, shall, secret, role, right, out, one’s, new, nation