Posted on 06/12/2008 11:39:35 AM PDT by KingSnorky
SUPREME INSULT
According to five shysters on the Supreme Court, terrorists -- including the architect of the September 11 attacks -- who have been captured by the United States military in the course of prosecuting a congressionally declared war have a constitutional right to appeal their case in federal civilian courts.
This means that, for example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- a Kuwaiti -- now has the same constitutional due process rights as you, me and the thousands of Americans he murdered on September 11, 2001. In other words, the Supreme Ambulance Chasers sent this message to the rest of the world today: "If you want to same rights as an American citizen, simply murder American citizens."
With this ruling, Stevens, Breyer, Ginsberg, Souter, and Kennedy trivialize the mass murder committed on September 11. They trivialize the heroic sacrifice of our military men and women and their families. They trivialize the successes of the War on Terror. And they trivialize the sacredness of American citizenship.
Until today, a foreigner seeking to destroy America had no constitutional right to American legal protections. So lawyers are now in charge of the War on Terror, and that all but guarantees defeat.
# B. Sides @ 10:46 AM
My suggestion. Turn them loose, and do it in Ginsberg, Souter, Kennedy, Breyer, and Steven’s neighborhoods.
After some of these air heads leave the SC; hopefully, the next president is McCain who will be able to seat Justices who pledge their allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
Voters, remember to vote for McCain.
No more reason to detain now...interrogate and dispatch.
America is dead... oh sure she’ll stumble on like the zombie she is.. but the body and soul is dead... and its her own government that killed her.
I’m thinking its time to move down under.
One thing that’s certain, liberals won’t, because they never have
accepted their responsibility for the consequences of their policies.
They’ll be outraged when the kill vs capture ratio goes WAY up after this ruling, but in no way will they accept blame.
I’m not so sure that this ruling won’t bring us back to a “saner” means of prosecuting war. I may be alone in this, but I’ve felt for a very long time that this idea of detainees was playing into the liberal mind-set to begin with. Someone said, “War is all hell,” and one cannot expect anything less, anything “civil” about it.
I don’t believe that is a correct reading of the opinion. It dealt with people who were not POWs, people who were taken up in the war on terror but not declared lawful enemy combatants.
I haven’t read the details of the case, and even if I do I’m not a lawyer. But in the end I don’t think this ruling will be as disastrous as some say, even though I think it was wrong.
You are not alone.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
Um...McCain essentially said today that he agrees with the court’s decision.
F’em! Let them enforce thr ruligs! Why let an entire country die for ther opinions? Time to declare all out war on the courts. You post the ruling, you enforce it!
Um... nope. Not unless the following means he "agrees with the court's decision".
John McCain said Friday that the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees is “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.” The presumptive GOP nominee said the decision, a 5-4 ruling Thursday that determined Guantanamo detainees have the right to seek release in civilian courts, would lead to a wave of frivolous challenges. “We are now going to have the courts flooded with so-called … habeas corpus suits against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. And we are going to be bollixed up in a way that is terribly unfortunate because we need to go ahead and adjudicate these cases,” he said at a town hall meeting in New Jersey.
I’m glad he came around to that way of thinking. The day of the decision, his tone was very different — something akin to “Oh well. That’s that.” He said he was “concerned” about the Supreme Court’s decision but that we need to “move forward.”
(I should also point out that McCain and other politicians who have long demanded closing Gitmo contributed greatly to the political atmosphere that undoubtedly encouraged the Leftist 5 justices to make this ruling.)
My guess is that after some overnight polling, McCain decided to be far more vocal about his displeasure. Either way, he finally got it right.
If it were me, I would call out each of the Supreme Court’s Leftist Five and label them as traitors.
Thanks for your reply.
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