An American citizen is seeking asylum in a foreign land

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80. What's "strange or odd"

is that this individual, while he did break "the law", does not trust our legal system enough to believe he could ever get a fair and impartial public trial. In this I agree with him. The goverment will so stack the deck he'll never have a chance, and may not even get a public trial. From an American point of view, this is stange and odd, at least to me. I happen to agree that he'd never get a fair trial here.

We'll hold the question of what is "the law" for now. It seems that you can get lawyers to say anything is legal or illegal (look up the torture memos). If you break an illegal law, is it illegal? Is making something that the government is doing illegally a "state secret" a binding legal law? I don't know, but you might consider the question.