MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact Bill Zeiser at bill.zeiser@gmail.com, 516-448-5489, Website: www.911neverforget.us
9/11 NEVER FORGET COALITION TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING DECEMBER 5th RALLY AGAINST NYC TERROR TRIALNEW YORKERS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER: “WE WILL FIGHT YOU ALL THE WAY!”
What: 9/11 Never Forget Coalition Press Conference. Details to be provided on December 5th rally protesting the NYC based trial of 9/11 conspirators
Where: Castle Clinton, Battery Square Park : UPDATE: LOCATION MOVED 100 yards east of Castle Clinton at Battery Park Gardens Restaurant.
When: November 24, 2009 12:00 noon
Who:– Representative Pete King (R, NY)
– Debra Burlingame, co-founder 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America
– Tim Brown, founder TheBravest.com
– Andrew C. McCarthy, former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and prosecutor in the trial of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
– Peter Regan, Active FDNY, 2 Tour Iraq War Vet, 9/11 Family member
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9/11, Eric Holder, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Military Commissions
Lessons From Nuremberg: military courts can live up to the promise of the rule of law
by Tim Sumner •
In the New York Times this morning, former Deputy-Assistant Attorney General Allan Gerson writes:
While it is true that military tribunals have in the past not accorded defendants the full range of procedural safeguards applicable in a criminal trial, this has changed in recent years. Section 949l(c) of the Military Commissions Act of 2009 specifically provides that the burden of proof, which rests on the government, is nothing less than that applicable in a criminal trial: beyond a reasonable doubt. Moreover, the allowances for the use of hearsay and coerced evidence have been eliminated by the Military Commissions Act of 2009. If one truly wants to have a “show” trail of U.S. fairness, there is no better model than what the military courts would do.
Finally, the use of a military tribunal would be understood around the globe. No country other than the United States has ever suggested that war crimes be tried in ordinary courts. The true moral advantage lies in demonstrating that military courts can live up to the promise of the rule of law.