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I'm glad you got that off your chest. I'm going to respond to the specifics, not the generalities.
Re the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial: We're a nation of laws. That's what the Constitution sets up, and that's what you served to preserve.
Do you really think there's any other outcome likely than the guy getting the death penalty? And when that happens, won't it be so much more satisfying to know it was done legally, in a court of law, by a civilized nation, decided upon by a jury of his peers? Won't that be better than just kneeling him down and shooting him?
It's the difference between vengeance and justice. Vengeance leaves everybody smaller.
I find it very strange that the less-than-100 people killed at Ruby Ridge and Waco combined carry more weight with the "government overreaching" crowd than the hundreds killed, injured, or getting their civil rights trampled every single day by an out of control law enforcement system. I don't get that at all.
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