Posted on 06/28/2004 6:21:38 PM PDT by jwalsh07
Ok, I want our laws and our constitution to govern the acts of our officials civil and military wherever they are in the world. If that makes me a liberal then I guess I am a liberal.
Great. The same defense lawyers that got OJ Simpson a not guilty, are going to be defending jihadists terrorists. Best to be like the russians. Kill the jihadists and be done with it.
I want to know why you think Ted Olson left out the suspension of habeas corpus in time of war argument. Is it that Ted Olson is a constitutional dunce? Or is it that he didn't think the argument any good? If he didn't think the argument any good, then why do you think it any good? Or maybe Ted Olson just plain forgot to think it up? Maybe we just have to face up to the possibilty that you are really smart and Ted Olson is really dim.
That is not quite what the decision actually says. Perhaps you should go read it.
Paging Stanley Cohen!
You did not quote me correctly. I did not type the first sentence. I responded to the first sentence. For the record, I personnaly dont think the jihadists are 'plotting our doom'. I think they are plotting their own doom. And the Supreme Court appears to be accelerating the process. How many Jihadists will be taken 'alive' after Johnny Cochran gets a Gitmo jihadists detainee to walk freely on national TV ? There needs to be some acceleration of the process at Gitmo, but giving them access to the US criminal defense system is absurd.
The supreme court agreed with you
but giving them access to the US criminal defense system is absurd.
The Supreme Court did not do this. They merely said there has to be a process and pointed favorably to military tribunals.
There will be a lot fewer prisoners taken.
;O)
And got his hand slapped by Justice Taney who pointed out that the Constitution only grants this authority to the Congress, said clause in the constitution appearing under article I summarising the powers and limitations of the legisltative branch. Later the Congress passed an act suspending habeas corpus.
Well some laymen anyway. The only wisdom this layman had went in the can with my wisdom teeth.
What?? And leave the Titanic?
this article underestimates the effect of the 600 cases, and the appeals, to be brought in the federal courts on behalf of the Gitmo detainees. Its going to be chaos, its going to spread to other US bases where prisoners are held, its going to force the military to have soldiers behave more like police officers making an arrest.
James Taranto said on Best of the Web that the US could avoid all the cases by moving the prisoners to a base in another country where they do not have autonomous control, and where maybe the ruling government is not as scrupulus about interrogating prisoners as the US. We could send them all back to Afghanistan and try them there, for instance.
Ted Olsen works for a President that will not stand up to the Supreme Oligarchy, the one that Jefferson foresaw and warned about. Of course the wimps in Congress bare the real responsibility, they have the authority to reign these morons in, but I suppose that they really don't want to. It is very convenient to have some one to blame for doing your dirty work.
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