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White House: Boston Bombing Suspect Won’t Be Charged as ‘Enemy Combatant’
The Blaze ^
| Apr. 22, 2013
| Billy Hallowell
Posted on 04/22/2013 12:15:05 PM PDT by Mozilla
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We Knew Obama would do this. So what's new? I expected this. Now he gets a defense.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:15:06 PM PDT
by
Mozilla
To: Mozilla
Boston Bombing Suspect Wont Be Charged as Enemy CombatantYeah, it's not like he was a Tea Partier or a Pro-Life activist.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:15:54 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Mozilla
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:17:19 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: Mozilla
Afterward this still very dangerous puke will be tried by an ad hoc peoples' revolutionary court ~ probably about the time the regular day guards shift with the night crew, and some of the lifers are not on lockdown.
After all, prisoners have rights ~ one of them is to not be locked up with a cannibal. One of the others is to not be locked up with a mad bomber who blows children to pieces.
Sorry our judges and politicians aren't as advanced as prisoners in their understanding of justice.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:18:10 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Mozilla
It’s pretty simple. Try for treason, strip of American citizenship then off to gitmo or firing squad.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:18:11 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Sharia? No thanks!)
To: Mozilla
I wonder if they Mirandized him before they started questioning him. If not (as they said they wouldn’t), then any confession he made will not be admissible.
I have to say, I do agree that American citizens should not be tried as enemy combatants. However, he should be tried for Treason.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:19:00 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: stuartcr
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:19:43 PM PDT
by
Baseballguy
(If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)
To: Mozilla
The criminal path leads to Saudi Arabia AND
the White House.
The DO”J” MUST insure that the path is NEVER followed.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:19:44 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(De Oppresso Liber)
To: Mozilla
This may be a good thing...the next time a Tea Party member lights up a cigarette within 2,000 yards of Blumenthal's office, he or she won't be charged as an enemy combatant.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:20:47 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Mozilla
We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilians system of justice, Carney told reporters. Carney called an Islamic terrorist a terrorist??? Someone's gonna get a strongly worded memo!
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:21:28 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Mozilla
Dzhokhar gets full Constitutional Rights..
What about the citizens of Boston?:
To: Baseballguy
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:23:02 PM PDT
by
Mozilla
To: Baseballguy
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:23:23 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: isthisnickcool
That is the correct way to do it, the constitutional way!
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:23:47 PM PDT
by
qman
(The communist usurper must go!)
To: stuartcr
“How was McVeigh charged?”
Not as an enemy combatant. Citizens should not be charged as such, it’s a slippery slope. At some point, just anyone the party in power doesn’t like, who commits a large scale, or even small scale crime based on political beliefs, will be charged as an enemy combatant and tortured. I think this is the right move from a Constitutional perspective.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:24:46 PM PDT
by
rudabaga
To: stuartcr
How was McVeigh charged? According to Wikipedia,
- Count 1 was "conspiracy to detonate a weapon of mass destruction" in violation of 18 USC § 2332a, culminating in the deaths of 168 people and destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- Count 2 was "use of a weapon of mass destruction" in violation of 18 USC § 2332a (2)(a) & (b).
- Count 3 was "destruction by explosives resulting in death", in violation of 18 USC § 844(f)(2)(a) & (b).
- Counts 4 through 11 were first-degree murder in violation of 18 USC § 1111, 1114, & 2 and 28 CFR § 64.2(h), each count in connection to one of the eight law enforcement officers who were killed during the attack.
-PJ
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:26:16 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Mozilla
Three hots and an air-conditioned cot for life, coutesy of Uncle Sugar.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:27:36 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Mozilla
I, for one, don’t want any Gov’t official having the power to decide if a particular crime warrants stripping someone of their rights as an American citizen.
The fact is these Chechen swine should have never been allowed into the country in the first place, but our PC, leftist Gov’t stupidly gave them American citizenship, so now we deal with them as American citizens.
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:27:37 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Maceman
“I wonder if they Mirandized him before they started questioning him. If not (as they said they wouldnt), then any confession he made will not be admissible.”
Exactly. The other interesting issue that will be raised by the Fed Defenders in his case will be the fact that this public safety exception has never been imposed this far out. In other words, I think 48 hours is the longest they have pushed it. With this guy’s medical status, they are really pushing it. I think it’s better to simply Mirandize him so they can use it against him. Barring that, just don’t ask him anything beyond, “are there more explosives besides these that we found?”
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posted on
04/22/2013 12:27:44 PM PDT
by
rudabaga
To: Mozilla
He shouldn’t be charged as an enemy combatant. He is the enemy, but he’s a citizen.
Sorry, we don’t want to start a precedent of the White House/Congress/arm chair lawyers, deciding which U.S. citizens should become an enemy of the state. Today it could be a Muslim/Chechen, but tomorrow it could be a Christian/Texan.
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