Posted on 07/01/2006 5:36:38 AM PDT by Mia T
The Supreme Court’s decision to impose by judicial fiat a treaty that no politically accountable official would dare propose — a one-sided compact wherein the United States gives elevated due process to al Qaeda’s terrorists while they continue slaughtering civilians and torturing their captives to death — is an abomination.
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You have to wonder who's side they're really on. It's really inexcusable.
Yes, it's an outrage. It is also enough of a reason to elect a Republican US President in 2008. There are many Republicans on the US Supreme Court but only a few conservatives.
The Court is way outside it's Constitutional boundaries and has been since Earl Warren ran the damned thing into the ditch.
When the founders granted 'The Press' special dispensation, they never considered the possibility that traitors in our midst would game the system. But that is precisely what is happening today. (Hate America? Support jihad? Become a 'journalist!') This was bound to happen. The premise behind the First Amendment as it applies to the press--that a vigilant watchdog is necessary, sufficient--indeed, possible--to protect against man's basest instincts--is tautologically flawed: The fox guarding the White House, if you will....
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President Bush should immediately put out a statement to the effect that since Congress had lawfully removed this case and others like it from the review of the Supreme Court, any decision on the case is without merit and will not be implemented. Then start the tribunals.
bttt
Stevens was born in 1920 for. Ginsburg is ill we NEED one more good Bush judge between now and Jan 2009. Only get that IF we hold the Congress.
Well we are one Justice shy of fixing that. Dump Gitzy or Stevens and replace them with an Alito/Roberts/Scalia/Thomas type and Kelso, CFR and this decision goes to the Right instead
Well we are one Justice shy of fixing that. Dump Gitzy or Stevens and replace them with an Alito/Roberts/Scalia/Thomas type and Kelso, CFR and this decision goes to the Right instead
I believe that the government, practically considered, is simply a camorra of incompetent and mainly dishonest men, transiently licensed to live by the labor of the rest of us.
I am thus in favor of limiting its powers as much as possible, even at the cost of considerable inconvenience, and of giving every citizen, wise or foolish, right or wrong, the right to criticize it freely, and to advocate changes in its constitution and personnel the very commonest of common men has certain inalienable rights."
["Autopsy," American Mercury, September 1927]
In this age of loose nukes, manufactured microbes and crazy terrorists not restrained by MAD, we can no longer afford a government, however 'limited,' that is 'a camorra of incompetent and mainly dishonest men.'
The professional pol has to go; he needs to be replaced by the citizen politician in government and the citizen-journalist in the press.
Perhaps Bush ought to follow what Lincoln did when the court ruled against him which is "They made ruling, now let them enforce it."
Understood and agreed. The good news is the courts are getting more conservative, while the bad news is there are still problems that won't change until it happens.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008593
This article in Opinion Journal is pretty good on the issue.
I believe that was Jackson with the 'now let them enforce it' comment. In any event, our own John Armour of North Carolina explained this abomination much more deeply than the drive-by media has ... and it's no wonder since media whoredom, sitting far to the left as it proves daily, has no interest in the truth regarding this fiat from the left-leaning court of subpremes.
bump. You beat me to the punch. ;)
I was going to research more about that quote. Anyone have the details?
These traitors have stepped way outside the Constitution to the realm reserved by it soley to the President/Commander-In-Chief. They even spit in the face of Congress. Time for the President to reassert the Constitutional authority of the executive in this, publicly repudiate the Supreme Court decision, and then conduct the Tribunals.
bump!
Harriet wouldn't have screwed us over. But she isn't there, is she?! Whose fault is that, huh? Did the 'Rats torpedo her? No, the nutjob Right!!! |
**"They made ruling, now let them enforce it."**
I believe that was Andrew Jackson and not Lincoln.
It had to do with the removal of the Cherokees and other tribes to Oklahoma.
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