Posted on 07/02/2006 7:01:29 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Apparently celebrating its first major victory over the U.S. citizenry (SCOTUS’ Kelo decision to do away with the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and allow private developers to steal American citizens’ property was only a year ago), on Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the President of the United States cannot order terrorist enemy combatants to be tried before a military tribunal. The court wrongly cited the rules according to the Geneva Convention. This unfathomable reasoning, using the Geneva Convention as the basis for its decision, does not apply to this situation.
The Geneva Convention applies to its signatories and those who wear the uniform of a recognized country. Neither of these scenarios is applicable to the current crop of terrorists at Guantanamo. But, the liberal contingent of the U.S. Supreme Court used it anyway. This is simply and clearly yet another instance of courts--and now even the U.S. high court--making up decisions as they go along, in order to justify their own ideologies. Although these decisions fly in the face of the U.S. Constitution, these liberal courts have determined that they are far above the laws of the land.
Several pertinent questions come to mind. If foreign terrorists are now to be afforded all of the rights of U.S. citizens, and will have their cases tried in U.S. domestic courts, will U.S. troops now be required to Mirandize them? Will our soldiers have to “read them their rights” on the battlefield, when taking them “into custody”?
Will we now have attorneys appearing in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan to advise their radical Islamic clients not to say anything to their captors? Do you really believe any of these Ramsey Clarke wannabee terrorist ambulance chasers would go to Iraq in the first place?
Still don’t think we’re in a desperate situation? Well, let’s take a look. We have leakers giving national security secrets to the mainstream media. Note: For those who are still unaware, it’s called treason. Then, we have our own homegrown leftist mainstream media collaborating with the leakers and publishing said national security secrets. All of these are part and parcel to the crime. But, nothing is done about either of these treasonous acts and no one is suffering any consequences of their treason. And, to plunge the knife in further (and then shoot the victims over and over again), now we have the leftist faction of our U.S. Supreme Court stripping the president of even more of his powers. Now, it’s stripping his ability to wage war against an enemy that attacked us!
To those leftists reading this, you will also be very negatively impacted as are the rest of us, by this latest inane decision by our high court. You just don’t see it. Unfortunately, most of you never do and won’t until you are finally and irretrievably personally attacked by the enemies of our country, our people and--yes--you.
These are dire times for the country and this latest decision has made it even more ominous. It appears that the factions who no longer want the United States of America to survive are winning. But, it’s not coming from the ballot box. It’s coming from the far-left contingencies who rule by both intimidation and now unmistakably--judicial fiat.
Throughout history, our presidents have had the powers that the current liberal judiciary has now ruled “obsolete.” And with the arrogance and egos only present in those who believe “we can’t be touched,” they have placed the country--and us--in mortal danger.
Is this not the same Supreme Court that was to be a boon to conservatives because of the appointment of two conservative Justices by President Bush. I could have sworn that during all the brouhaha over the last two nominations, what I heard was that O'Connor was the swing vote between the four liberals abd the four conservatives on the Court. Did one of the conservatives switch to the liberal side or were there never four conservatives to begin with?
Do liberal Court Justices just pop out of some mysterious hole (besides the nomination lists of GOP presidents), when they are needed? I am, sadly, not up on the voting records of the current Justices, but I certainly was under the impression that Alito and Roberts had put us in the driver's seat.
Very unfortunate that in this time of crisis, that in time of war, that the US has to fight a war on two fronts. Let history not forget the absolute bonafide bulls--t liberals put this country through when it needed them the most! This is what the left fears the most; That Iraq is successful and psychotic radical Islam dies, because of that happens, they know as does everyone else, that they will be tagged as the biggest, the most ultimate scumbags this country has ever seen. Treason times a million. Not that our liberal infested education system will ever teach it, but the facts will always exist. Like Rush says; "What would our founding Fathers say?" ho ho ho...Lucky for the left the F.F.`s aren`t around.
Roberts sat this one out - it was a 5-3 vote. Roberts had ruled, while sitting on the DC Court of Appeals, that tribunals were legal.
There are 4 Conservatives (Alito, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas), 4 Liberals (Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, Stevens) and 1 fence-sitter (Kennedy). The vote was 5-3, with Roberts unable to vote because of a conflict of interest (with the 3 dissenters being the Conservatives). I won't feel comfortable to declare we have a majority until we clear the court of at least Stevens and Ginsburg.
Kennedy should hang his head in shame for siding with theleft on this; this was a purely political decision, and Kennedy picked his side. Shame on him.
Could Bush remedy this by executive order?
How would this work? This ruling was based on irrefutably wrong facts. There is no way that illegal combatants such as Al Qaeda are covered by Geneva.
Congress could remedy the USSC decision by action. As a matter of fact, Congress could rein in the USSC, and bring them into Constitutional line quite quickly......if only we had a Republican majority.
The immediate answer to this decision is obvious--take no prisoners.
I just asked someone how this could be remedied and the answer I got was, just don't bring them as prisoners any more. Hint hint.
4 minutes behind you. LOL.
Obviously we need more Jack Bauers out there to get the info and leave the corpse. The libs thought this ruling would help against torture; as usual everything they do backfires...
Yes. Bears repeating. That is, unless the candidate can't be trusted to put a conservative (read COMPETENT) judge on the court. (Who would McCain appoint?)
Remove the "his head in shame" part, and I agree 100%. It just warms my heart that al Qaeda has a majority on the SC.
He could remedy it by doing what Lincoln would have done-- frogmarched the five dissenters off to prison for the duration of the war for delving into territory where they clearly have no jurisdiction.
The problem will likely be remedied by Congress, but I would LOVE to see Bush call in these SCOTUS bums, sit them down, and politely but firmly explain to them that if they do not wish to be laughed to scorn, ignored, and asked to resign, they must base their rulings solely on actual and applicable laws. BTW, Justice Kennedy is no conservative. We need one more.
Neither Alito nor Roberts are true conservatives. They are both moderates, who in the mold of Bush himself, believe in the so-called "separation of church and state". They both publicly promised that their faith would have nothing whatsoever to do with any of their decisions, which means, of course, that they have no faith and may as well have been atheists selected for the Supreme Court.
I wonder if Americans will ever come to the conclusion that they have been duped into believing there is still a "conservative" party that opposes the "liberal" party? If you take away the extremists from both parties, what you have left is a bunch of moderates that comprise the majority of BOTH parties.
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