Might be the reason they exist - to purge the evil from America using our own idiocy.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Wow! The KSM case could crack open the Barry BC case! Who could write a novel like this??
...KSM will get off and the Republicans will be too chickensh*t to use it to win the following election.
Good disclaimer, considering Jack Kemp, the politician, is DEAD.
Jack Kemp is the author of this? Wow, that is pretty amazing. For several reasons.
Here’s what would happen.
KSM: Your honor, request for dismissal due to Obama not being President, blah blah blah
Judge: Request denied.
End of story. Sad as it is.
He wasn’t read his Miranda rights - either he’s under our system - or not... Maybe he’ll walk before he has a chance to make his case.
They will play to the media and attack Bush.
When the Gitmo guys hit a civilian court the first thing they should do is ask about jurisdiction, does this court legally cover Afghanistan?
Might be the reason they exist - to purge the evil from America using our own idiocy.
PING!
Food for thought.
Just because all the past cases have failed due to the plaintiffs not having standing, doesn’t mean KSM would not have standing. The way things are these upside-down days, I’d expect the court to agree that KSM does indeed have standing to question -18bam’s eligibility.
The legitimacy or lack thereof regarding this president has little to do with the fact that the previous president, the one that brought him to justice, both was legitimate and acted legitimately.
Secondly, the legitimacy of the current president does not reflect upon the legitimacy of the court that is trying him.
The point is that he could bring up the Birth Certificate all he wants and it would not matter one iota as it would be dismissed as irrelevant to his case. There would be no uproar as the court would remind the defense that BHO is not the one on trial in the case at hand.
Third, granting the impossible, were a Constitutional Crisis of this nature to be raised, BHO would have an extremely difficult time implementing martial law. He would be the one in violation of that same Constitution that members of the military have both sworn to uphold and and honor daily in their service. Instead, he would more likely end up with a coup on his hands and would certainly be well aware of that, making this entire scenario both unlikely and silly.
BHO might be a fool, but he’s not the sort of fool that would set the stage for his own ouster.
I highly doubt this scenario.
If it looked like Barry was trying to overthrow the constitution, I have no doubt that Congress would impeach him quickly and throw him out of office. Whatever can be said for the liberal leadership in Congress, a constitutional coup from the executive branch would jeopardize not only their jobs, but possibly their lives as well. Once stripped of his power, he would have no control of the military.
The beauty of our government structure, is that Congress will check a tyrant when the rubber hits the road. All it takes is a signature to strip the president of all his legitimacy and turn the military against him. And if the liberal members of Congress refuse to overthrow a tyrant, a popular revolution backed by supporting members of the legislature would be almost certain.
Ping!
Crappola,
the govt. will have a judge that disallows any questioning on this as not germain.
What trial?
The man has not been given due process under the law. Any attempt at a trial in our civilian court system should be dismissed immediately.
If not, then your own due process mean nothing either!
Except Obama and KSM are on the same team. One wouldn’t do anything to undermine the other.
Of course “torture” will be used as an excuse to forgive planning the deaths of 3000 people.
Just a non-lawyer guess...
To have standing to question the eligibility of a sitting president, KSM would have to bring a quo warranto claiming a particularized injury in fact directly attributed to Obama.
The only act affecting KSM that I can think of which can be directly attributable to Obama via his appointee Holder is Holder's decision to try KSM in civil court as a criminal rather than military court as an unlawful combatant.
KSM would have to claim this transfer to NYC for a civil trial was somehow an “injury in fact” particular to KSM.
KSM appears to be delighted to have the grand stage of trial before the world in NYC as well as a chance to get off on numerous technicalities not available to him in military court. So I view any quo warranto attempt by KSM to be improbable.
Remind Jack Kemp that it was NOT ONE FIGHTER trailing AIR FORCE ONE over Manhattan, but there were TWO FIGHTERS escourting AF-ONE during it’s terrifing ANTICS over Manhattan, one of which had the RED TAIL of the TUSHEEGEE AIRMEN from Alabama, the First Black Fighter Wing that OBOZO had just reactivated and was celebrating their 75th? Anniversary. The WH chose to hide that second Fighter, but THE NEW YORK POST documented it’s existence clearly in a Front Page Photo after that Terrifying Stunt!