Posted on 04/22/2013 8:01:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Liberals and civil libertarians shouldn’t yet be saying that there’s utterly no way that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be declared an “enemy combatant.” The post-9/11 law, whatever one’s opinion of it, does say that an American citizen affiliated with al Qaeda, the Taliban, “or associated forces” engaged in hostility with the United States can be declared an enemy combatant. It doesn’t seem like he’s that, but who knows, he may shock everyone when he comes to by saying that he and his brother were precisely that.
But it isn’t liberals who are jumping the gun here. As usual, conservatives are rushing to judgment, shredding the Constitution, using the bombing as an pretext for derailing immigration reform, and generally seeking any excuse to reimpose their paranoid and authoritarian worldview, which needs fear like a vampire needs blood, on the rest of us.
The cry, which I’m sure will pick up steam this week, was led over the weekend by the usual suspects—John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, and Peter King. On the basis of what evidence? On the basis of no evidence at all. They know nothing! We’re starting to piece together a portrait of these guys, although it’s more of Tamerlan than of his younger brother. It’s a grim portrait. He evidently did become a radicalized Islamist. But if he and his brother were acting alone, even if the bombing was 100 percent politically motivated, they can’t be called enemy combatants. Period.
At most, they should say: “If the facts connect him to al Qaeda or any other designated groups, then he should be declared an enemy combatant.” Some would disagree with that, but no one could really criticize that as a legitimate posture within the parameters of U.S. law....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
It’s not paranoia if they’re really out ta get ya!
If they were working alone why did the younger brother feel he had a need to kill his older brother?
A bit more of the so-described “paranoid mind” and this attack could have been thwarted. You know, like the “paranoid” conservatives in Canada just thwarted the planned attack on the Amtrak “Maple Leaf” train.
The author is a Partisan Media Shill, and a scumbag. The fact that The Daily Beast published it shows that it is run by scumbags.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Analysts surprised by alleged Al Qaeda in Iran tie in Canada plot
la times | 4/22/2013 | Emily Alpert
Posted on 04/22/2013 7:29:44 PM PDT by tobyhill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3011164/posts
AP NewsAlert [Boston suspects motivated by religion, worked alone]
Breitbart | nothing follows
Posted on 04/22/2013 3:18:07 PM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3011066/posts
Muslims Should Rise Up And Reject Terrorism
Investors.com | April 22, 2013 | Nonie Darwish
Posted on 04/22/2013 7:55:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3011167/posts
I cannot for the life of me think of a finer example of liberal projection than this article.
Yeah. U.S. citizens have the right to due process.
The Fiscal Cliff will Kill us all.
Occupiers Demand Bankers Heads on Platters.
If Obama is not elected President there will be riots.
Yada, yada, yada...
In “The Mohammedan Good Book of War”, it is the infidel converts to Mohammedanism peaceably, or the sword. There is no ‘waffling’. It is either convert, or die.
To that, I retort:
Stand and Deliver! No Submission, No Compromise, No Prisoners!
I spilt my own blood, defending The constitution, and MY OWN Rights, to go tell some ‘everluvin’ idiot from one of them there ‘Stans’, to kneel and pucker, when they state “You Must ...”!! Ain’t no ‘Must’ from this here aged Native Born, with a bloodline nameed ‘Dalton’!
Holy cow.
I was determined to stay out of the immigration debate, but this airheaded bit of tripe motivated me to post.
We need to shut down the brainless move to swamp us with immigrants, just like we did with the brainless move to restrict our guns.
“NO”. Not maybe. Not in depends.
No.
Guns laws are because of paranoia.
Liberals do it all the time, especially regarding racial issues. They come up with crazy off the wall definitions of what a conservative “was REALLY saying”, then they label it racism. Everytime I see or hear this crap I think only a person who thinks that way could twist it.
A little paranoia is a good thing, especially when dealing with people who want you dead.
“As usual, conservatives are rushing to judgment, shredding the Constitution, using the bombing as an pretext for derailing immigration reform, and generally seeking any excuse to reimpose their paranoid and authoritarian worldview, which needs fear like a vampire needs blood, on the rest of us.”
Insanity
Tomasky is an old leftist with a puppeteers hand up his back. 3,000+ murders of American citizens by islamic scum and he still lives in denial.
Just want to remind everyone that Al Qaeda was originally formed by many different Islamist groups. It means ‘The Base’. Liberals and leftists want people to think it is one group now. Most here know this already....this post is for the low info Marxist lurkers.
Even the title of this article is moronic...why read the rest?
Jump on it as fast as possible and demagogue it to death.
He was on TV stoking fear and hatred about guns before the ME was even allowed into the school.
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