Posted on 06/12/2008 6:35:59 PM PDT by STARWISE
Thursday's 5-4 decision awarding "unlawful combatants" at Gitmo --terrorists-- the "privilege of the writ of habeas corpus" has left millions of Americans stunned. What in the world is the majority of the Supreme Court thinking? Justice Scalia, writing in dissent, was blunt:
America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen.
See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60–61, 70, 190 (2004).
On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9.
It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.
The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.
These are harsh words, unusually so even for ordinary debate, but amazingly so among the nine. Justice Scalia is quite obviously as frustrated with his aging colleagues as are the vast majority of Americans. There’s a war going on. These terrorists and their still-at-large allies are trying to kill us.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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Who in their right mind can truly believe that the highest court in the land would ever parse away our safety and lives with such indifference?
Yup, it'd be over the line for Bush, but something's got to be said (or done) about Justices going over the line!
I, for one, am dumbfounded.
Best thing the Congress can do is get rid of them as fast as possible ~ 9:42 this evening would not be too soon.
No good deed goes unpunished....
What I would do is IMMEDIATELY (like tonight) free all the detainees, put them all on planes, and deport them to their home countries. And do if forcibly if they refused to go. I do not want any of them in the United States causing havoc. I do not want them spending our tax dollars on lawyers and the courts.
Stupid ruling.
“....Scalia read from his bitter dissent. He wrote that the Court’s decision “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed,” apparently because it will result in dangerous detainees being released. Scalia cited news reports that some of the detainees that have already been released have returned to the battlefield and been involved in suicide bombings and other hostile acts. “The decision is devastating.”
Scalia said that for the first time, military commanders would now have to undertake “the impossible task of proving to a civilian court, under whatever standards the Court devises in the future, that evidence supports the confinement of each and every enemy prisoner. The nation will regret what the Court has done today. I dissent.”
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“Roberts also authored a dissent, criticizing the majority for dismissing out of hand the considered efforts of the other branches to respond to prior Court rulings. The chief justice concluded that “this decision is not really about the detainees at all, but about control of federal policy regarding enemy combatants.”
The ruling, said Roberts, did nothing to advance the rule of law, “unless by that is meant the rule of lawyers, who will now arguably have a greater role than military and intelligence officials in shaping policy for alien enemy combatants.”
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202422222546&rss=newswire
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God help us PING!
Bush would not be impeached if the militia were to activate itself to protect the people against America’s enemies.
If "millions of Americans" think it's a really bad idea, what is their recourse, if any?
“We have to pray that Justice Scalia is wrong though common sense tells us he is right.”
OPINION: Yep, Justicde Scalia is right.
Vote for Obama/Barry/Hussein, he will make sure we have the right Court.
"There’s a war going on. These terrorists and their still-at-large allies are trying to kill us."
I’d like to see them released them in the airports closest to the justices who voted for this diabolical and insane ruling.
UNLEASH Hell, we can start with telling these bastards what we think about their ruling.
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Dude, we *don’t* wanna go down that road.
As a whole, we are asking for it.
Maybe we deserve Osama-Obama. :-(
I’m going to go to bed tonight in disbelief. I to, am dumbfounded.
Listen Americans, and understand!
The treacherous Democrats and their terrorists are out there! They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead
I’m truly stunned by this ruling.
Even for lefties, this is way too far.
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