Freep This Poll: Has the Supremes Hurt The War On Terrorism

The Supreme Court Monday ruled the government has the power to hold American citizens and foreign nationals without charges, but detainees can challenge their treatment in U.S. courts. Your view?

1. The Supreme Court should have taken a stronger position to defend the rights of citizens.

I've rephrased this liberal poll to say exactly what its all about. The average citizen dont have to think very hard to recall just how some lawyers are just plain evil and would love to use this forum to destroy the USA, not to mention the current crops of activist judges.

It just plain pisses me off to see just how the media has been CONSTANTLY ATTACKING the President since he took office even to the point of insinuating that he planned or allowed 9/11. Then we had the 9/11 commission which was nothing less than a partisian hack.

So lets go and freep for item 2!

We seem to feel comfortable with the indefinite detention of someone with an Arabic name. However with the passing of more and more restrictive laws, the continuing erosion of our freedoms, more and more people will react in a way that would be construed as terrorism. Soon it will be you're regular John Smiths that are locked up indefinitely and their 'terrorist activity' may be nothing more than protesting outside of a free speech zone.

We seem to feel comfortable with the indefinite detention of someone with an Arabic name.
I really don't care it they have an Arabic name or not. If someone is arrested inside one of the 50 states of the United States of America, the Constitution gives no "wiggle room" on how they are to be tried. It is very clear on how we must proceed with their trial. There is no provision for indefinite detention.
If you are a citizen, captured outside the borders of one of the States, the Congress may decided where your trial may take place.
Treason, both inside and outside our borders is punishable as decided by the Congress, but still requires a trial.
All others captured outside the borders of the 50 states are pretty much at the mercy of the military, which is ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Congress but under the immediate supervision of the Commander in Chief.
However, Article 1, Section 8, specifically states that tribunals constituted by the Congress are inferior to the Supreme Court.
I find no place where the Commander in Chief is authorized to constitute tribunals.

"to destroy the USA"

You speak of how others seek to destroy the United States while in defense of the indefinite detention of American citizens by a government that seeks to do so without allowing any recourse for those detained. America isn't simply a country - it's a culture, a way of life, and a system of freedom and justice. One cannot preserve freedom by destroying freedom.

We're at war with an enemy who wants to see us less free. Please stop trying to give them what they want.

We seem to feel comfortable with the indefinite detention of someone with an Arabic name.

That is a very broad brush you are using there. Btw, those prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are the worst of the worst Al-Qauda terrorists and are you confortable that the Supremes have now given them a free ride to the media circus called the "US Justice SYSTEM"?

How about lawyers sympathetic to their cause acting as go-betweens to the terror cells? Heck even in Israel the terrorists have no qualms with their RED CROSS collaborators and using the ambulances to smuggle arms and terrorists.

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