Posted on 11/30/2008 5:17:31 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
Richard Sanders is being called an impetuous crank who ought to be punished for his boorish behavior.
Maybe so. It won't change this: He is definitely onto something.
Sanders is the state Supreme Court justice who couldn't take it any more. About a week ago, he was back in Washington, D.C., listening to a speech by President Bush's attorney general, Michael Mukasey, when he snapped.
"Tyrant! You are a tyrant!" Sanders yelled at Mukasey, then walked out.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
It will be interesting to see if the WA Commission on Judicial Conduct does anything about it. If so, it will be at least a year before any final action is taken and he will endear himself to the WA liberals, so even a reprimand or suspense will not harm his chance at re-election. He already has the conservative/libertarian vote.
We’ve got the “green light” to treat members of the Obama administration the same way. Not that we would do so.
I had to read the article to find out what the commotion was about and of course it’s “torture”. We of course should be treating those Gitmo terrorists better since we can see from their friends’ recent foray into Mumbai that they don’t really mean us any harm. /s/
Just asking, is all.
The Geneva convention doesn’t even apply to terrorists since they are not soldiers of a nation which is a signatory. Can’t forfeit something which doesn’t even apply to you.
You know, that’s what I thought. I should have expected such shoddy journalism from this clown; after all, he’s from Seattle, election fraud capitol of the world.
When liberals see a turkey being slaughtered on TV, they call it an ‘execution’.
When a Republican uses a proven method to extract valuable information from the enemy, liberals call it ‘tyranny’.
America allows people to run around doing, saying, and believing stupid things. Is this a great country or what?
It's an insult to those who've lived under actual tyranny and witnessed its heinous affects.
One thought here.....can anyone tell me who, besides the US, abides by the Geneva convention? To me, it’s just a political term that is used today if you have nothing else to complain about during a conflict.
As for torture, I have to believe that if your child was being held by one of these people in Gitmo, you would do anything that you had to do to get this child back. If you knew that one of these people had definitive information about Denver and its total distruction, you would do anything that you could to get this info from them. Where do you draw the line? You draw the line at your, or your families, survival.
“The Geneva convention doesn’t even apply to terrorists since they are not soldiers of a nation which is a signatory. Can’t forfeit something which doesn’t even apply to you.”
It all depends on who decides if it applies. The goal by the liberals/marxists is to tie the military in knots, much like they have done with the police. They do it under the guise of “justice” but the real reason is to ... render them ineffective.
“Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.
— George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
“Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands,’ he wrote. In all respects the prisoners were to be treated no worse than American soldiers; and in some respects, better. Through this approach, Washington sought to shame his British adversaries, and to demonstrate the moral superiority of the American cause.”
Liberalism is a mentally dibilitating desease with no cure!
If I’m ever in Washington I might visit his courtroom and shout out an appropriate verbal salute.
You would be escorted out of the copurtroom and nothing else would happen.
In fact stateless and ununiformed combatants are expressly not covered by Geneva Convention. The demrats started this crap soon after 9/11 and the MSM has perpetuated the myth that the US is denying these sociopathic assassins international status. It’s a lie. No different than the American left’s claim that these people somehow have rights under the US Constitution. Another lie.
You folks who claim to be constitutionalists better start doing more than voting. That includes letters to the editor and calling your representatives and senators. Emails are a waste of time. Few if any negative emails are read. Using “key word” sorts it is easy for the political elite to program their servers to s*** can emails they don’t want.
In fact stateless and ununiformed combatants are expressly not covered by Geneva Convention. The demrats started this crap soon after 9/11 and the MSM has perpetuated the myth that the US is denying these sociopathic assassins international status. It’s a lie. No different than the American left’s claim that these people somehow have rights under the US Constitution. Another lie.
You folks who claim to be constitutionalists better start doing more than voting. That includes letters to the editor and calling your representatives and senators. Emails are a waste of time. Few if any negative emails are read. Using “key word” sorts it is easy for the political elite to program their servers to s*** can emails they don’t want.
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