There is no right of trial by jury by one’s peers.
Inmates at Guantanamo Bay and other federal facilities are presumed guilty and are treated as if they are guilty. There is also rendition, a policy in which federal officials send suspected terrorists to brutal partner dictatorships, whose job is to torture the inmates into confessing or divulging information. That’s what has happened at Guantanamo, Bagram, and other federal overseas prisons. Torture is another important part of federal Constitution-free zones. Oh, sure, they’re promised a trial one of these days on the charge of “terrorism,” but everyone knows that the trials never come. Suspects are rounded up, especially men in their 20s and 30s, and simply locked away in jail. Whenever the federal government invades, conquers, and occupies a foreign country, one of the first policies it establishes is one of indefinite detention. For all practical purposes, the inmates are incarcerated indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of their lives, without any chance of ever being brought to trial. Oh, sure, throughout that time they’ve been promised a trial but it’s always been just a promise.
There are people there who have been languishing in jail for some 13 years without a trial. In Guantanamo, defendants have had no right to a speedy trial.
While the Supreme Court ultimately dashed that hope, we nonetheless can get a fairly good idea as to the type of federal judicial system that would be operating in the United States had our ancestors not demanded passage of the Bill of Rights. What would life be like without the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? For the answer, all we have to do is look at places where the federal government operates independently of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.Ĭonsider Guantanamo Bay, for instance, a federal installation that the president and the Pentagon announced from the very beginning would be totally independent of the Constitution and the federal judiciary.
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