Curt Weldon Quotes
Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
United States, Congress, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Able Danger and Intelligence Information Sharing. Government Printing Office, 21 Sept. 2005, p. 14.
While it is true that the English wanted a legal system that would enforce modern western views of business and property, there was another major reason that the British wanted special courts. There were many British businessmen and civil service who insisted on their rights as Englishmen. These were not provided by traditional Islamic law (Sharia). On the other hand the British wanted to give the Egyptians a great deal of autonomy and the compromise was to have two legal systems—one for each culture. This is a solution that has existed many times and many places. The most common is when the U. S. has a military base in a foreign country and agreement is entered into as to what laws will govern the Americans. Even in the United States it was common for many years for Indians accused of a crime on an Indian reservation to be tried by the tribal council while whites accused of the same crime would be tried before a Federal Magistrate. Even today there are conflicts between the legal systems and traditions of some tribes and the United States Constitution which also protects all Indians.
This was his reaction when he was criticized for encouraging over 1000 extrajudicial murders of accused drug addicts and drug dealers with no trial at all and no due process.
Wayne Curtis Weldon is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania. He was defeated in November 2006 for reelection by Joe Sestak. Weldon was vice-chair of the Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee. He was also the co-chair of the Duma-Congress Study Group, the official inter-parliamentary relationship between the United States and Russia.
