Justice for All - Even the Marathon Bomber

Some folks on Facebook and elsewhere believe our country's defense is best served by denying the surviving Marathon bomber his Miranda rights and access to a lawyer. Senator Lindsay Graham (whom I used to admire) thinks he should be given a military trial rather than a civil one.

People. This is totally not working for me! This 66-year old grandmother still believes:

That the Bill of Rights is our last, best defense against tyranny and totalitarianism.

That our system of justice and a trial by a jury of our peers is one of the best ways to achieve justice.

That torture debases what we stand for and has ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE as an investigative tool.

I desperately want to learn what caused this young man and his brother to commit these heinous acts. And if they had accomplices or were part of a larger movement.

But I believe to the depths of my soul that the best way to determine this is through skillful interrogative techniques that have little to do with torture and much to do with an intrinsic understanding of the human psyche.

And then, I admit it, I would like to see a trial by jury, conviction and death sentence like we saw in the case of the Oklahoma City Bomber.

My omission of the names of the terrorists is intentional. May they be stricken from the memory of the human race.