The bloc of liberal justices reasons that the framers designed our fundamental law to empower enemies of the American people to use the American people’s courts as a weapon to compel the American people’s commander-in-chief to justify his actions during a war overwhelmingly authorized by the American people’s elected representatives . . . even as those enemies continue killing Americans. The upshot of the ruling is that the judiciary, not Congress, could now become the master of deciding what rights our enemies have in wartime. Planet Pepe ululates.
The judicial tendency, when the United States is a party, is to bend over backwards to eliminate not just the reality but the mere perception of unfairness to the adversary — even if that adversary happens to be a ruthless, incorrigible enemy of the United States who would, given his druthers, torch the Constitution and install freedom-hating sharia law. Orgasmic nirvana for the pinkos.
Monday, June 16, 2008
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Naturally, Sen. Barack Obama and other hard-Left Democrats are thrilled with Boumediene. They are enthused by the prospect that federal judges, if left to their own devices, could turn these proceedings into full-blown trials, with all the constitutional protections they would gladly give our enemies if they thought voters would let them get away with it.
Panem et circenses for the hard-Left.
Barack Boumedine Obama
So, are you closer to Obama than to moi on this, JJ?
I don't think so, AI. I think we need good legislation. I don't expect it from the current congress and I sure fear it from the courts' bench legislating.
I don't think there's any good reason enemy combatants should have full habeas rights and I understand why open court is not a good place to give good enough evidence against them.
There should be something better than military tribunals though, and your thinking there's enough on the books worries me. We are fortunate that others see the problem you don't. Without proper definitions around, it becomes legal for the cops to throw quite a few people in jail they might want and leave them there. I don't think it would happen soon, but the law has to be right and coherent.
Historically, military tribunals have been laughable Judge Roy Bean kind of things and so I don't trust them at all.
Like I said, I think it's an important question and there is no good law around yet. I also think a democrat congress on its knees before Abdullah bin Obama is out of its depth when it comes to providing an alternative.
Probably Egypt and Syria's tender mercies will be our alternative, and this is horrific and shameful.
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