I agree with you, but that’s not the general consensus.
I think that at as a free society we should try alleged terrorist in civil court. But it seems like Americans want to throw the book at time in military courts.
The character of our nation has changed.
As the extent of the NSA pigs’ spying programs comes out, more and more ordinary people are angry about it. I actually don’t think that the character of the average American has changed much, and there will be a backlash at some point, as there was in the 60s. All the same, I’m proud to be a dual citizen, since I can always move to an EU country like Germany which has stricter privacy protections than the US.
Secondly, the latest posterboy for stupidity, Tsarnaev, is in fact being tried in civilian court.