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Originally Posted by Platapus
Closed hearing? aka secret tribunal? No way that could be abused. 
There should not be any reason why due process is to be conducted in secret.
The entire purpose of an appeal is to challenge the decision of the government in a case.
Do we really want to give the government the power to conduce secret hearings and then proclaim "uh, no the appeal was denied, but we really looked at it carefully and son-of-a-gun, it turned out that our initial decision was correct. Imagine that!"
I don't want to live under a government that has that power. I fear that the US is rapidly moving to that and it scares me. |
An open hearing could be abused too. Breivik used about two hours to present his saying-and he used about 30 minutes to talk about his manifest an other things.
A court is not a place from where a person can give his or her political view.
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