Posted by
x_dhimmi (deb) on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:46:41 AM
FROM THE CENTER OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
Does All This Sound Familiar? It Should.
In a 2006 ruling (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld), the High Court shook its finger at the Bush administration, saying the executive branch had no authority to set up military tribunals to hear cases of accused terrorists captured in foreign countries.
However, Justice Stevens, speaking for the majority in that case, wrote: "Nothing prevents the president from returning to Congress to seek the authority [i.e., trial by a military tribunal] he believes necessary."
And that is just what President Bush did! Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, which became law in 2006.
Or so everyone thought. That was then and this is now!
As Justice Scalia wrote in his dissent in the Boumediene case: It seems like the five justices "were just kidding."
In effect, in the most recent case, the majority said to Congress and the President:
"Okay. Last time, we lied. It's unconstitutional to do what we SAID you could do. Fooled you! Fooled you!"
But this no joke!
Our nation is at war with radicals who wish to destroy us. But the liberal media and other Leftists just don't seem to care.
Aren't these the same liberals who scream "stare decisis" at the top of their lungs and claim that left-wing decisions they like SIMPLY CAN'T be overturned without inviting some kind of major catastrophe (like a plague or famine)!
However, back to the point; the decision also does something else:
It empowers the cruelest, most hate-driven enemy Americans have ever encountered -- monsters who use their own women, children and even mentally handicapped people as unwitting suicide bombers.
Yet five Supreme Court justices have just ruled that these monsters have the right to be tried under more lenient laws than our own troops, live in more comfortable accommodations, and receive the support and admiration of the Public Defender's Office and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Somewhere in a cave in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden is laughing at America -- a nation too weak-willed to defend its own culture and too confused to understand its own Constitution.
Meanwhile, in obedience to the Prophet -- Osama's followers fight on.
~Posted by x_dhimmi (deb)~