Use courts the U.S. already has
Re “Funds sought for court at Guantanamo,” Nov. 18
I was appalled to read that the Pentagon is asking Congress for $115 million to build a courthouse at Guantanamo Bay. Presumably this will be the first American courthouse in our history to be built without jury boxes or a place for the public to view open proceedings.
It is a travesty that the Bush administration, having already built America’s first penal colony at a cost of billions of dollars, now wants to create its own foreign court system so it can administer an unconstitutional form of justice hidden from the eyes of the people.
Congress should stand firm and deny the administration the funds to continue building its parallel universe in Cuba.
There are plenty of real courthouses in the United States; let the administration use them and the American justice system they represent.
DEACON ERIC STOLTZ
Los Angeles
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