“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.”
— Justice Robert H. Jackson's Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal, November 21, 1945, at Nuremberg, Germany in Case No. 1: The United States of America, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics v. Hermann Wilhelm Göring, et al.
This summer, the world will see how profoundly the United States has fallen when the administration's military tribunal-'kangaroo court' spectacle tries six 9/11 mass murderers using confession-obtained-by-torture evidence, secret evidence, and severely diminished due process in a judicial pretence so appalling that the Pentagon's own chief prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, and two other prosecutors resigned in protest, as the administration has arranged for a rigged political show trial at which the world will be dismayed.
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