Posted on 11/16/2008 5:41:07 PM PST by Sun
Most liberals have no sympathy for babies who are deliberately delivered prematurely and left to die or babies killed through the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion. But many of these same liberals, including leftist ‘human rights’ groups, which believe killing an innocent unborn child is a human right, are deeply concerned over the plight of terrorist suspects caught on battlefields fighting for the Taliban or al-Qaeda who are now detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Despite charges of poor treatment, the Pentagon actually spends $2.5 million each year to make sure the detainees are provided with Korans, prayer rugs, special meals for Muslims, exercise and better medical care than many American citizens receive.
The detainees are officially classified as ‘unlawful enemy combatants, not prisoners of war (POWs), since they violated the Geneva Conventions laws of war. They wore no uniforms or insignia. They refused to carry their weapons openly. They operated under no military hierarchy and represented no government. Granting them the privileges of the Geneva Conventions and the United States Court system would encourage further illegal behavior and endanger both civilians and soldiers in future conflicts.
President-elect Obama plans to release some of these detainees immediately. Some will go back to the countries where they were caught for rehabilitation and release. Hundreds of others will be shipped to the United States to face trials in our criminal courts, where no doubt hundreds of ACLU lawyers will be more than happy to defend them and help them to get released so they can get back to killing U.S. soldiers, committing acts of terrorism and generally making war on the United States and our allies. Already, every detainee at Guantanamo has an average of at least two lawyers. The United States has extended unprecedented legal rights to our enemies.
Laurence Tribe, an Obama legal adviser, said closing the prison is a top priority. Many questions still need to be answered about how the detainees will be handled. Will they be tried in regular criminal courts, in military tribunals or a hybrid of the two? Many Democrats insist that these terrorist suspects be accorded full rights under the United States Constitution as a U.S. citizen would.
Other questions yet to be answered are:
1.) Will the rules of evidence be the same as in a regular criminal court. This may lead to some of the detainees being acquitted due to a technicality, like the murderers Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were. (Ayers and Dohrn founders of the domestic terrorist group called the Weathermen. Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meet the candidate night in their home as Mr. Obama was beginning his political career.)
2.) Will the defendants have the right to confront witnesses? This would mean that undercover CIA officers and informers may have to take the witness stand. This would jeopardize their cover and reveal classified intelligence tactics.
[With the leftists in charge, I think the most dangerous job in the world right now is that of a CIA undercover operative. It will probably be easier than ever for our enemies to infiltrate the United States government. Leftists hate the CIA and would rejoice in the killing of our agents.]
President-elect Obama has promised Guantanamo Bay will close. I believe it will, although there is no reason it should. Even if the detainees were granted POW status, which they don’t deserve, the Geneva Conventions require only that they be released ‘at the end of hostilities’. These prisoners should not be released until the conflict in Afghanistan has ended.
Liberals support a woman’s right to choose to kill her unborn children. One of the reasons they give is that we can’t guarantee that the innocent baby we seek to protect won’t become a criminal. Yet these same liberals wring their hands over the treatment of people who have already proven they are bent on killing us! Why kill the innocent and protect the guilty?
It would be tragic, but not surprising, if President Obama helps to release the future participants in a 9-11 style attack on the United States or one of our allies. I doubt most Americans who supported President-elect Obama understood the significance of this issue before they elected him.
The leftist bleeding hearts and the ACLU might put so many lives in danger.
If Americans can't find the time to do proper research, they should NOT vote. They are endangering American lives with their uninformed voting!
FYI
Taking prisoners just became a big waste of time!
good just shoot the bastards thats my policy
We just need to go ahead and adopt the scorched earth strategy until the inaguration. That way we will be hated so much even with the little o.
Just send all the terrorists and bleeding hearts in shipping crates to Siberia and make them do hard labor with no food in the harsh and cold winter.
The bleeding hearts don’t realize that THEY could suffer along with the rest of us.
9/11 terrorists did not discriminate.
...Yea!!! Who cares about the rule of law. Kill them all!!! The republicans lost the White House!!! Kill,kill,kill!!!... Pathognomonic...
...I have boots lined with Lagopus feathers. Might keep my hairy toes warm when I go to ice caps to bring them food after their hard labor in the harsh cold of winter. Uppp, I hope I won’t make life to easy for them after you’ve judged and executed them...
Send the Taliban prisoners back to Karzai and let him decide what to do about them.
Put the al Qaeda prisoners on a barge.
Sink the barge.
I heard a clip of Obama saying on 60 minutes that he still intended to close Guantanamo. You would think that after learning Intelligence during this transition period, he would get a clue or two.
Wish Obama would care as much about the innocent babies that he voted four times to allow to die after a botched abortion, as he does the ruthless terrorists, who want to kill us.
LMAO! Lagopus means “rabbit foot” and no I am not a self-hater.
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