Posted on 06/16/2008 5:28:51 AM PDT by Laverne
It is difficult to single out the most outrageous aspect of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s cataclysmic Boumediene ruling last Thursday: The reckless vesting of constitutional rights in aliens whose only connection with our body politic is their bloody jihad against Americans; the roughshod ride over binding precedent to accomplish that feat; or the smug arrogance perfectly captured by dissenting Chief Justice John Roberts’s description of a “constitutional bait and switch” — a Court that first beseeches the political branches to enact a statutory procedure for handling combatant detentions, and then, once a thoughtful law is compliantly passed, invalidates the effort for its failure to satisfy the eccentric predilections of five lawyers.
snip....Unduly empowered by the bedlam of unguided judicial proceedings, many jihadists will be freed. If that happens, Americans will be killed. It is that stark, and it should be that intolerable. It is the solemn responsibility of our lawmakers to prevent that outcome. With an election looming, with nearly 200,000 young Americans putting their lives on the line, and with an enemy working energetically to reprise 9/11, every member of Congress should be challenged to tell us where he or she stands on Boumediene and its aftermath.
Execute them all. That way they have no more “constitutional” problems to deal with.......
“Execute them all” needs clarifying with the addition of the “when caught” would make the court rules “whole cloth” as the saying goes...
That’s what I meant...........
Who's next?
Take them to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific and dump them there. Let them kill each other. A real “Survivor” reality show!............
Given the obvious impact such activities would have on the combat effectiveness of a front-line unit, any commander worth his salt will decide that taking prisoners is too much of a burden on our ability to fight. There will be no prisoners. The scum the morons at SCOTUS were trying to protect will be dead instead.
Kennedy, Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter - now synonyms for Benedict Arnold.
Even better: Close GITMO and move ALL the detainees to the Washington DC City Jail. Let them sue from there. After all it’s a Federal Reservation.
My favorite quote:
“Now the Court has decided that the combatants have constitutional habeas rights. If you can follow this, the bloc of liberal justices reasons that the framers designed our fundamental law to empower enemies of the American people to use the American people’s courts as a weapon to compel the American people’s commander-in-chief to justify his actions during a war overwhelmingly authorized by the American people’s elected representatives . . . even as those enemies continue killing Americans.”
This is an important article. Thanks for posting it.
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