Posted on 06/12/2008 4:16:23 PM PDT by vietvet67
"The Nation will live to regret what the Court had done today," Justice Antonin Scalia writes at the end of his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush, the case in which a bare majority of the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, extended rights under the U.S. constitution to enemy combatants who have never set foot on U.S. soil.
It's worth noting that the nation has lived to regret things the court has done in earlier wars. In Schenck v. U.S. (1919), the court upheld the conviction of a Socialist Party leader for distributing an anticonscription flier during World War I--material that would unquestionably be protected by the First Amendment under Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). In Korematsu v. U.S. (1944), the court held that the government had the authority to ban Japanese-Americans from certain areas of California, simply on the ground that their ethnic heritage rendered their loyalty suspect. Korematsu has never been overturned, but there is no doubt that it would be in the vanishingly unlikely event that the question ever came up again.
This war was different. Almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks, we began hearing dire warnings about threats to civil liberties. Five members of the high court seem to have internalized these warnings. As Justice Anthony Kennedy put it in his majority opinion today, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times." Kennedy and his colleagues seemed determined to err on the side of an expansive interpretation of constitutional rights.
And err they did. As Justice Scalia writes:
[Today's decision] will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court's blatant abandonment of such a principle that...
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Are they Stupid or VILE????Are they TRAITORS or just anti-Christians??? If this was President Clinton they woould NEVER have voted this way!
Maybe any and all released TERRORISTS will meet their families someday.......and it will be UGLY if they kill again.
Is it time to take our country back?
Indeed you are correct.
lol.
Then the polar bears would get lawyered up too. :-)
“if this decision is any indication of how ‘Heller’ will go, we’re screwed.”
Not really. It gives us a direction to shoot.
Listen Americans, and understand!
The treacherous Democrats and their terrorists are out there! They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
it never ceases to amaze the power that the left-media has over america. in one word:
fear.
i remember when bill o’reilly went down to gitmo and i discussed it with a female democrat-tv-viewer friend.
she wouldn’t believe what i said about o’relly’s trip.
she believes that gitmo is more evil than what our enemies do in iraq.
i mentioned the beheading of daniel pearl in pakistan and she just looked at me in disbelief:
how could i not understand that bush and gitmo are more evil?
unbelievable.
"[Today's decision] will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. "
Check out Charles Krauthammer's thoughts before you let them off.
I came to this after listening to Charles Krauthammer's remarks on Fox's Special Report tonight.
The hundreds of thousands of German real POW’s captured during WWII were held on U.S. soil for the duration fo the war. They did not get any constitutional rights.
Why not?
The point is that POW’s, these are not by th way, are held for the duration of the war. They are not charged with crimes and prosecuted in the court system.
Why do you assume I am letting them off? They aren’t innocent; they’ll just have to go through the system.
My remark was directed towards letting the thugs off.
There isn’t a polar bear within 8000 miles of that iceberg. It s in the Antarctic. The Polar bears, however, may enjoy the fresh meat, if they could get it.
lol
Not according to the Supreme Court as of yesterday.
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