Clarence Page: Civilian Courts Fight Terrorists, Too

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TERRORISTS by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things. In the run-up to his trial as alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed's success as a terrorist is showing in us. A lot of good patriotic law-'n'-order Americans suddenly sound frightened by our own civilian judicial system.

Almost two-thirds of Americans would rather see Mohammed tried in a military court instead of a civilian court, according to a CNN/ Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday. Only 34 percent say that he should face trial in civilian court, as the Obama administration plans to do.

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Clarence Page: Civilian Courts Fight Terrorists, Too

If a presidential election were being decided today on this issue alone, President Obama would lose, big time. But if the Bill of Rights were put to a vote, I imagine it would lose...

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