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You give up many of your civilian rights when joining the military and agree to be bound by the UCMJ, not civilian court. How can the UCMJ be biased against pe
by acabal 16y ago
You give up many of your civilian rights when joining the military and agree to be bound by the UCMJ, not civilian court. How can the UCMJ be biased against people the military doesn't like if it only applies to the military?
I agree his detention is horrific, but he's bound by rules he agreed to, and rules which are probably not (I assume, and in general) that biased or "inherently unfair" when viewed from the perspective of the military--which is the perspective to which they solely apply.
- Qz 16y agoSee DADT for how the military can easily be biased against people it doesn't like while only applying to the military...
- jbooth 16y agoWell, there is the matter of discretion. The collateral murder video put a lot of egg on a lot of people's faces and I bet some of those people were the one who declared him a "suicide risk" and put him in indefinite solitary.
- vaksel 16y agothat always seemed weird to me. The constitution guarantees inalienable rights, yet apparently the government thinks that you can sign your rights away
- radu_floricica 16y agoGood point. Plus there is that bit about people not being able to give up those rights, even if they want to.
- Joakal 16y agoI didn't say stuff along the lines of signing the rights away, or the like. I said the military justice system is designed that the military prosecutors have an inherent unfair advantage in how they decide and control the process of justice. eg indefinite detention under the guise 'building case', suicide call checks every 5 minutes under 'suicide watch', loss of time perception under 'terrorists use watches' etc. I don't see why the military, a well-armed arm of the USA government to carry out extreme activities, can't have a neutral court that takes reasonable care of their own accused soldiers and has fair due process.