An Outrage

National Review Online ^ | June 30, 2006 | The Editors

[MNJohnnie]

Really too bad Roberts had to recuse himself. It entirely possible with him on board that gutless whore Kennedy would of done the right thing. This is really an indefensible decision. It spits on the US Constitution, the US Congress AND the Geneva Conventions treatment for "Unlawful Combatants" It only redeeming quality is that in their zeal to vent their Bush hate the Leftist on the Court actually screwed their terrorist heroes over. See what most of the Junk Media overlooks is the SC decision SPECIFICALLY acknowledges that the US can hold the Terrorists "As long as hostilities exists" So we cannot try them in Military Court. The 2nd part of the McCain Anti-Terror Amendment prohibits access to US Courts and we are under no obligation to ever release them. Way to go Court! Way to totally screw up what you were trying to accomplish!

[Desdemona]

You have to wonder who's side they're really on. It's really inexcusable.

[Morgan in Denver]

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.

[Gritty]

After observing the Court ruling in such abominable ways as Kelo and Campaign Finance, why should anybody be surprised at this tortured result?

The Court is way outside it's Constitutional boundaries and has been since Earl Warren ran the damned thing into the ditch.

[Mia T]

More than anything we on the Right can do or say, this decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,
and yet another decision by The New York Times to leak classified data,
will remind the voter that the Left cannot be trusted with our national security.

To borrow from Mencken, a stupid demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he mistakes for idiots.

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

James Madison

 

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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[Doug Loss]

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.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[MNJohnnie]

It did not help that since Roberts heard this on the DC District Court he had to recuse himself. This is not a judgment by the "Bush Court" but the last incoherent scream of Leftist rage from the Clinton Court. We have got to have one more Justice. One more Justice and for the 1st time since the 1930s Conservative will run the Court.

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.

[MNJohnnie]

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

[MNJohnnie]

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

[Mia T]

We've become inured to the abomination; still it's alarming.

Leftists, whether on the court or in congress, are relics of an another time and an another war; hence they are absurd and will always be absurd.

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.

[jwin]

Perhaps Bush ought to follow what Lincoln did when the court ruled against him which is "They made ruling, now let them enforce it."

[Morgan in Denver]

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.

[MHGinTN]

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.

[Mia T]

bump. You beat me to the punch. ;)

I was going to research more about that quote. Anyone have the details?

[DakotaGator]

This is far more than an outrage. The Supremes that voted for this have committed Treason!

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.

[Mia T]

bump!

[theFIRMbss]

>But when the consequences of the Court’s arrogance rise to the level of life and death, there is only one word to describe what it is: an outrage

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!!!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**"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.