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- If my experience serves any purpose, it is to illustrate what most already know: courts must not be allowed to consider matters of great importance under the shroud of secrecy, lest we find ourselves summarily deprived of meaningful due process. If we allow our government to continue operating in secret, it is only a matter of time before you or a loved one find yourself in a position like I did – standing in a secret courtroom, alone, and without any of the meaningful protections that were always supposed to be the people's defense against an abuse of the state's power.
Why is this allowed? Why is it when Russia, China, NK or (Insert your favorite 'Evil Empire' here) have secret courts it's a high crime against freedom and human rights, but when it happens in the US it's just... Ignored. This guys livelyhood was destroyed, and he will receive no justice or even a fair day in an open court to plead that something has gone wrong. We're either becoming the bad guys, or it's becoming more obvious we have been the bad guys for a while. I don't have enough historical information to figure out which.