Posted on 11/19/2008 7:30:43 PM PST by moneyrunner
The Volokh Conspirators and an interesting bunch of guys. It may not be their fault that they attract a bunch of nuts and Jacobins to their blog site.
The individual contributors are capable of making reasonable-sounding arguments as to why the detention of enemy combatants should not be held indefinitely at Guantanamo (assuming you view our war against Islamic radicals as a civil police action in which the US military got involved). But, as I said, their arguments usually avoid the foam flecked comments that follow these postings.
But suddenly, now that Obama has been elected, the subject has been dropped. I go to the site almost daily and the subject is internet hoaxes, the auto bailout, Eric Holder, Prop 8, God in the Declaration of Independence, Virgin Annulment, Dan Rather, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, and much more.
Why the disinterest? Could it be that there have been hints out of the incoming Obama administration that they may have to keep these people confined? That there may be a reason for not granting them bail and letting them out in the streets? Could we be setting the stage for the “normalization” of Guantanamo (or its equivalent)?
And then Eureka! I find it. The thing that I thought I had lost. The Volokh article on Military Commissions and National Security Courts After Guantanamo
Because I wanted to re-visit just one more time what Liberals believed should be done to members of the Bush administration:
--Impeachment of Bush and Cheney. If necessary, after they leave office!
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
I suspect it’s like so many other things the democrats demand when republicans are in power. They want to force republicans to do unpopular things that they don’t want to do themselves.
They call for the draft knowing it won’t happen, they demand immediate withdrawl from Iraq, and there’s the GITMO thing. They won’t do any of them themselves, they just want republicans to do them so it can be used against us.
Republicans have been truly pathetic in defending themselves against all this. Bush just rolled over in the name of “the new tone” I can gurantee that Hussein’s administration won’t care one bit about “a new tone in Washington” The thug tone will be the only thing that matters.
I guess we will have to just kill the terrorists on sight.
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