> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Miller
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:02 AM
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> "They don't deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war. They don't
> deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an
> American citizen going through the normal judicial process," Cheney
> said.
How is it morally defensible to have two standards of justice? Anyone have
any pointers to moral justifications for this? Don't we believe that our
judicial process exists because it is just, not because Americans deserve
better than the rest of the world? Our justice system seems to have dealt
with the Oklahoma City terrorists about as severely as one could expect.
Seems to me that this is expediency wearing a poor disguise. I'll have his
words in mind the next time I hear a complaint from the right about moral
relativism...
Nick
