Al Qaeda Wins, But Bush Loses. To Liberals, That’s Called Victory
This is the best explanation of the Supreme Court’s most recent power grab, that I have read so far. What those five Justices did was despicable. The idea of granting constitutional rights to foreign Al Qaeda terrorists, not only violates Constitutional precedent, but worse, it violates common sense.
Imagine if the thousands of German soldiers kept in the United States in World War II had been given the right to have their cases heard in American courts. What if that had been done in the American Civil War? Do you idiots that support this nonsense really even realize the can of worms that was just opened here? Are we now supposed to start reading Miranda rights to terrorists caught on the battlefield? Idiots, every damn one of them.
What really irks me about this, is the support that this expansion of judicial power has received from so called libertarians. Perhaps Timothy Lynch of Cato should do a little research on the individual for which that think-tank is named. Perhaps he should remember that Marcus Porcius Cato ended every speech he ever made in the Roman Senate with the words “Delenda est Carthago” or “Carthage must be destroyed.”
Lynch and his ilk, which includes the nastiest of liberals, hate George Bush so much that they are willing to violate the Constitution, violate precedent, expand the power of the courts, and grant rights to terrorists, simply so that they can stick it to the President. Is that sick or what? Yes to these people, it doesn’t matter if the terrorists gain a victory, as long as Bush suffers a defeat.
The Bush administration’s abusive detention practices is the leading rallying cause to the recruitment of new radicals and the deaths of more American soldiers:
“There are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq — as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat — are, respectively the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.”
– Alberto Mora, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, appointed as Navy General Counsel by GW Bush