RE: Jury to Be Anonymous in Trial of Ex-Student Accused of Aiding Al Qaeda (April 26, 2010)
By Benjamin Weiser
To the Editor:
If there is anything that I have learned, it is that history repeats itself. This trial and the wording within the article closely resemble the mood in America during the 1920’s towards immigrants. First of all I think that the jurors have every right to remain anonymous because it would keep their judgment honest because they wouldn’t be afraid that what they had to say would cause them any harm. However I think this whole trial needs to be examined. In the past the fear of immigrants has caused some of the most heinous miscarriages of justice in American History, for example the case of Sacco and Vanzetti; two Italian immigrants who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid dearly for that mistake because of fabricated evidence. I’m not saying that Hasmi is either innocent or Guilty, merely that this bias needs to be taken into account and should be eliminated from the article.
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