Supreme Cowardice

American Spectator ^ | 13 June 2008 | Larry Thornberry

[K-oneTexas]

Supreme Cowardice By Larry Thornberry

Bumble was right. The Law IS an ass.

Bumble, the officious, fat old soak of a beadle in Oliver Twist, proclaimed the law an ass for supposing that wives act under the direction of their husbands. A dodgy proposition even in 1838, the year the world first met the engaging Oliver. But since then legal asininity has been a steady growth industry. Bumble never saw the half of it.

[K-oneTexas]

Judicial elitism. SCOTUS gives slap in the face to all the men and women who serve/served and those who that made the ultimate sacrifice by giving the rights they fought and died for, to those who have not earned them and never could.

[massgopguy]

I just read the text of Johnson v Eisentrager. If the phrase “declared wars” is the reason SCOTUS ingnored the pecedent set by it, then they just opened the door to lawsuit by POWS from the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

[K-oneTexas]

This would please the Dem Libs. Can you say ‘reparations’? Can you say ‘America’s world-wide abject apology’?

[SpaceBar]

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C.

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[Grizzled Bear]

Excellent choice SpaceBar. That quote sums it up!

[NavyCanDo]

They are non U.S. citizens who were non-uniformed combatants and terrorist. I say transport them back to the country of capture, where they can be quickly tried, and then shot.

[SpaceBar]

"…the law of war draws a distinction between the armed forces and the peaceful populations of belligerent nations and also between those who are lawful and unlawful combatants. Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals."

From the US Supreme Court decision Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)

[NavyCanDo]

“They are non U.S. citizens who were non-uniformed combatants and terrorist. I say transport them back to the country of capture, where they can be quickly tried, and then shot.”

Let me clarify, I was talking about the Gitmo detainees, not the Judges. I can see how someone could could mistake what I said. LOL

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It’s not cowardice, it’s treason with a liberal dash of Constitutional ignorance.

[krogers58]

If the spectre of impeachment has ever been warranted, it is clear that this judicial overreaching has risen to an attempt to subvert the constitutional power of the chief executive to execute his duties as commander in chief. To allow this ruling to stand, is allowing our constitution to be subverted.