and reflect upon how little criticism has been leveled at Democratic Party President FDR during WW2 for executing the American citizens who were brought back to the U.S. by German U-boats to conduct sabotage here.Jose Padilla and today's concept of enemy combatant is closer to FDR's interment of all Japanese-Americans or Lincoln's arrest of political opponents (including newspaper editors that opined against the civil war). Yes you do not hear much criticism of either, one Democrat, one Republican, because they have been annointed as greatest presidents of their generation.
In Libertarian literature, there is plenty of criticism of both.
and reflect upon how little criticism has been leveled at Democratic Party President FDR during WW2 for executing the American citizens who were brought back to the U.S. by German U-boats to conduct sabotage here.
"Jose Padilla and today's concept of enemy combatant is closer to FDR's interment of all Japanese-Americans..."
Noooooooo. No. No. No. Jose Padilla is much closer to FDR's arrests and executions of the American citizens who were sent back to the U.S. on NAZI U-boats to conduct sabotage here on U.S. soil during WW2, just as Padilla planned to do with his dirty bomb.
And you have no shame. Didn't you make the wild-eyed claim that Bush freaking *INVENTED* the term "enemy combatants," not even realizing that's what FDR coined in WW2 for people like those above-mentioned sabotuers...a term that was internationally recognized by the global Geneva Convention in 1947?!
You Libertarians crack me up. You've yet to grasp history much less current geo-politics.