Posted by
Mike Romer on Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:50:55 PM
By today’s ruling, the Supreme Court has confirmed suspicions I’ve held for a long time. They have collectively lost their minds.
They ruled today that enemy combatants captured on the battlefields fighting and killing US troops and detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have constitutional rights under our legal system. They have cited, among other things that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court's liberal justices were in the majority.
Did it slip the minds of the supreme court that this nation is at war?
Approximately 270 men (or poor excuses for men) remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The prison at Guantanamo Bay has been relentlessly criticized by such groups as Amnesty International, whose ideals seem to release every prisoner, regardless of the crimes he has committed and convicted for, or if not released, receive gourmet meals, unlimited visitations rights, and of course the good old stand-bys, free medical care, unlimited health spa membership and color wide screen cable Tvs.Bianca Jagger, I hope you’re finally happy, you now have a new career besides being married to the oldest rock star in history, Mick.. You now get to oversee the treatment of those at Gitmo first hand, I hope you enjoy the greeting you get being a female from those well known defenders of women’s rights, al-Qaida and the Taliban.
You’re much to skinny to strap a bomb to, the fuse probably outweighs you by at least 20 pounds. Maybe they could behead you after you and your group win their release from where they belong.....ah, good luck with that venture.
Now back to the supreme court, these nine supposed most brilliant justices in the nation, who only work nine months out of the year, and are appointed for life, seem to be working hard to undermine the safety and security of this nation..
Did they forget September 11, 2001? The endless TV footage of the jet airliner ram into the tower? The footage from the ground where the debris of paper, and other assorted refuse lining the streets, making it look like a snowfall in September?
The TV footage of crushed fire trucks, ambulances, and police vehicles, looking like a toy collection of a child after he had anger outbursts?
How could these supposed US protectors of the United States and the US Constitution forget those images?
What about the USS Cole, where we were treated to the gaping hole made by a Taliban bomb?
We had US armed forces maimed and killed in that little incident.
The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the Constitution, but that the system the administration has put into place to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is inadequate. My thoughts run, What more proof do you need to classify someone as a enemy than capturing them on a battlefield armed with automatic weapons used solely to kill as many American troops as possible?
I supposed the bombs and other weapons of war aren’t enough to meet the high standards of the high court, that they seem to have set for themselves.
This is a pure partisan decision, nothing more. The liberal democrats were probably chomping at the bit to vote for this disaster.
Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined Anthony Kennedy, to form the majority to do irrevocable harm to the United States and her allies.
The only thing I can see coming from this asinine decision, is violence, and I mean bloody violence.
I shudder that the thought of these nine clowns, and the condition of the world if they sat in on the Nuremberg trials, if there were presiding, Hess, Goring, Jodl and all the others would walk out free men. After all, they’d be entitled to American Constitutional rights.
I guess it’s keg night party time at the Pelosi and Reid’s homes.