The arguments appear to be lengthy and on-going amongst all sides of the issues - here's another one for consideration:
Nazi Saboteurs on Trial
A Military Tribunal and American Law
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/fisnaz.html
In a historical sense, I claim neither definitive answers nor strong opinions as to the political dilemma of all this - I do, however, retain an inherent trust in the strength of our justice system and its ability to withstand such pressures as may be brought upon it by this and other such circumstances.
You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
And so it goes...
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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