Posted on 05/12/2010 2:47:24 PM PDT by Syncro
SUPREME COURT TO FACE MECCA
May 12, 2010
Americans can thank the Supreme Court for the attempted car bombing of Times Square, as well as any future terrorist attacks that might be less "amateurish" and which our commander in chief will be unable to thwart unless the bomb fizzles.
Over blistering dissents by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, five Supreme Court justices have repeatedly voted to treat jihadists like turnstile jumpers. (Thanks, Justice Kennedy!)
That's worked so well that Obama's own attorney general is now talking about making massive exceptions to the Miranda warnings -- exceptions that will apply to all criminal suspects, by the way -- in order to deal with terrorists having to be read their rights as a bomb is about to go off.
Let's be clear: When Eric Holder thinks we're being too easy on terrorists, we are being too easy on terrorists.
Either the five liberal justices demanding constitutional rights for terrorists are out of their minds, or the religious worship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt has got to stop. According to liberal logic in the war on terrorism, FDR was a bloodthirsty war criminal.
When six Germans and two Americans were suspected of plotting an attack on U.S. munitions plants during World War II, FDR immediately ordered them arrested and tried in a secret military tribunal held behind closed doors at the Department of Justice.
Within weeks, all were found guilty. Six of the eight, including one U.S. citizen, were given the electric chair. One German was sentenced to life in prison and the other American citizen -- who had turned himself in and revealed the plot to the FBI -- got 30 years.
The Supreme Court upheld the secret trial, but didn't get around to writing the opinion until after Old Sparky had rendered its own verdict.
Consider that the eight saboteurs never actually did anything other than enter the country illegally, which I gather is considered a constitutional right these days (except in my future home state of Arizona).
Still, FDR had them executed or imprisoned after trial in a secret military tribunal.
How many future car bombers would be discouraged if Faisal Shahzad were tried by military tribunal and executed by, say, the end of the month? What if Army doctor Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had already gotten the chair?
But we can't do that because, according to five Supreme Court justices who aren't "progressive" enough for American liberals, terrorists waging war on U.S. soil get full constitutional protections.
So, instead, we're left arguing about whether an exception should be made to Miranda rights in the case of a terrorist who plotted with foreign agents to plant a car bomb in Times Square. ("You have the right to remain violent ...")
Read more at Ann Coulter.Com
The reason Democrats are obsessed with controlling the courts is that unelected judges issuing final edicts is the only way liberals can attain their insane policy agenda.Read the rest at Ann Coulter.Com
Ann’s on the mark as usual!
When six Germans and two Americans were suspected of plotting an attack on U.S. munitions plants during World War II, FDR immediately ordered them arrested and tried in a secret military tribunal held behind closed doors at the Department of Justice.No comment on that last sentence
Within weeks, all were found guilty. Six of the eight, including one U.S. citizen, were given the electric chair. One German was sentenced to life in prison and the other American citizen -- who had turned himself in and revealed the plot to the FBI -- got 30 years.
The Supreme Court upheld the secret trial, but didn't get around to writing the opinion until after Old Sparky had rendered its own verdict.
Consider that the eight saboteurs never actually did anything other than enter the country illegally...
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN May 12, 2010, 4:05 PM More Olbermannic Logic at the NYT - Tea Partiers Responsible for ObamaCare by Voting Against Sen. Bennett Last Weekend.
"Just last weekend, Tea Party members helped deny Senator Robert Bennett, the Utah Republican, his party’s nomination for his re-election campaign, in part because he had co-sponsored a health reform plan with a Democratic senator. Economists generally think the plan would have done more to reduce Medicare spending than the bill that passed. So, whatever its intentions, the Tea Party effectively punished Mr. Bennett for not being a big enough fan of big government."
-- In Greek Debt Crisis, Some See Parallels to U.S.
Thanks Syncro!
Read Ann’s column and note that her list is only a “partial” list.
The lovely Ann is truly awesome in intellect, insight and intensity.
Just awesome.
The chair...a rope...a hole between the eyes...ripped to shreds by wild beasts...
Any, or all of the above should have taken place long before the stroke of midnight 1-1-10.
The complete list would take several books!
It sure would be a different scene here in the USA if that had happened and this were true:
How many future car bombers would be discouraged if Faisal Shahzad were tried by military tribunal and executed by, say, the end of the month? What if Army doctor Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had already gotten the chair?I miss the good old days!
You betcha! That’s my idea of justice rendered.
big bump
Send it to Al Franken so he can write a book about it.............
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pictures never hurt
The episode Coulter refers to has been repeated many times in conservative circles (particularly by Boortz) as an example of how to properly treat terrorists. It seems odd to me that upholders of the Constitution are OK with government agents seizing someone off the street (citizen or no citizen), labeling him an “enemy combatant”, and holding him without trial indefinately or, in the FDR case, subjecting him to a secret trial and executing him. Can anyone say “habeas corpus”? Besides, how do we know they got the right people? That’s right, the architects of that wonderful ponzi scheme, social security, told us so. They couldn’t be mistaken.
Think of all the people mistakenly placed on the no fly list. The government is perfectly capable of labeling the wrong person an “enemy combatant” and whisking him away ala the KGB.
Yes, it is hard to trust the government
I saw an interesting program about the US during WWII. It seems that there were a lot of unexplained train wrecks in the US at that time. The Government refused to put guards on bridges and other areas as they claimed there were “NO” saboteurs here.
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