> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Monday, December 03, 2001 21:14 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Secret Military Tribunals
> Again, the tribunals are NOT SECRET! They allow for a procedure to > present secret evidence without the general public finding out about > it, but they do not allow for the entire trial to be held in secret. That procedure is exactly the problem. The idea behind a public trial is that everyone can see the evidence, and can see that the accused is given a fair trial. If you tell the public "you may see this piece or evidence, but not that piece of evidence", you might as well keep the entire trial secret, since the public will not be able to see for themselves that the accused is given a fair trial. OK, so the government will have to make secret information public. So what? That is the price you pay for having a modern western society. OK, releasing that information may be dangerous for people involved in obtaining that information (such as intelligence operatives). So what? They knew the risks when they signed up for the job. Besides, how will you keep that information secret? The accused certainly will not shut up about it. How to deal with that? Keep the evidence secret even from the guy? Sounds illegal to me. Show the guy the evidence, then lock him up in an isolation cell, denying him all contact with others, till the day he dies? Sounds like a violation of human rights to me. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l Tom's Photo Gallery: http://www.tom.vanbaardwijk.com
