The Supreme Idiocy of the Supreme Court
Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court shows once again just how insular and far removed they are from the real world.
From their ivory tower they have just handed the Jihadists Carte Blanche to continue their unholy Holy War on the infidels, namely us.
The Court started down this slippery slope back in 2004.That was when they issued their ruling in Rasul v. Bush, saying that the prisoners were entitled to have access to the American court system. So the government established a military tribunal process. As it stands, the prisoners can appeal adverse rulings to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Solicitor General Paul Clement argues the process provides the other enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, the opportunity to enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy combatants in the history of warfare.
But the detainees’ lawyers contend the current law fails to protect the constitutional rights the court said their clients were entitled to receive in Rasul. They want full habeas corpus rights, a constitutional protection that forces the government to justify in an open courtroom legitimate reasons an individual needs to be behind bars.
Although Congress expressly chose to keep detainees from challenging their status via habeas, it decided that prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants should receive administrative hearings before a military tribunal, subject to judicial review in the District of Columbia Circuit.
It’s obvious the distinguished constitutional jurists have never read former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy’s book “Willful Ignorance”. In it, he describes the stupidity with which the U.S. has approached fighting Islamic Terrorism. Our enemies, McCarthy writes, are waging war, while we are prosecuting them as mere criminals. That places much of the burden of an imminent national security threat on the criminal justice system.
Folks, the courts are a bad substitute for the real battlefield, so much so that leading up to 9-11 they were consistently able to outflank us. Witness the FBI HQ in Washington telling the Minneapolis field office they could not take the computer of one of the 9-11 hijackers from his home because it violated search and seizure laws. That was one of the terrorists who was in this country taking pilot training, but never asking the instructors how to land the plane, only how to fly it. Had the agents request to look at the computer been granted thousands of American lives may have been saved.
The liberal left cries and moans about how Bush has ‘damaged the image of America around the world’. They conveniently forget that the jihadists hated us and wanted us dead before Bush, during Bush and will still be trying to kill us after Bush is gone. They rail that once Barack Obama is in the White House he’ll meet with these despots around the globe (without preconditions he has said), they’ll roast S’Mores around the fire, sing kumbiya and suddenly the world will love us again. This is such a naïve and dangerous perception it’s laughable. They will use today’s court ruling to say this improves America’s image in the Muslim world. “Look they will say, how fair and just we are”. I hate to be the one to break this to them, but far from viewing this in that light, the terrorists see it as yet more evidence of America’s weakness and lack of will in confronting their murderous intentions.
Remember, we are not talking about Constitutional rights for American citizens here, we are talking about granting constitutional protections to enemy combatants, some of whom are like Ramzi Binalshibh, who admitted to helping plan 9-11. McCarthy was the prosecutor who sent Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the so called blind sheik to prison. After today it’s apparently not only Rahman who is blind. It’s the American court system. You would have thought the horror of 9-11 would have awakened America to the hate that drives our jihadist enemies. We are “the other”, infidels who deserve to be slaughtered as victims of their religious zealotry. Apparently the 5 justices who voted to grant our enemies constitutional rights today are more than willing to help them out in their war on us.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
While offering some interesting insights, you, sir, are so right sided it is actually nauseating. Isn’t 8 years of political ineptitude enough? For a gentleman with a degree from a highly regarded school, our dictator, oh, sorry, beloved president, has yet to figure out simple economic formulas.
If you want to compare presidents and how they are perceived by the public, just look at the basic approval ratings. For all his faults, Clinton at least didn’t leave office being disapproved of by over 60% of the nation.
Hey, how about Bush’s one time ally, Scott McClellan? He was a good man when he blindly followed Bush, but now his statements are those of a traitor (a.k.a. a liberal in your mind) and his opinions should be discounted as a result, right?
One last item: one of your callers stated that Bush was elected president twice. What was the popular vote on the first run? Of course, if Gore had a brother as a governor of a state, things may have been different.
Keep on talking, you amuse me.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
1. The Supreme court is not the third legislative branch of our government, it is there to interpret the constitution, not re interpret the constitution.
2. The house and senate are under the control of the democratic party, if they so chose to end the war they can, immediately, they control the money!
3. If Bush was inclined to he can evoke the Geneva convention rules, which would make the enemy combatants pow’s, at this point they can be held until the war ends.