June 15, 2008
ONE SIDE BELIEVES IN THE CONSTITUTION...:
Habeas Ruling Lays Bare the Divide Among Justices (Robert Barnes and Del Quentin Wilber, 6/15/08, Washington Post)
As both sides of the court acknowledged in Thursday's decision, the cases exposed fundamental differences in the court's vision of judicial power. The conservatives favor adherence to strict rules and regulations promulgated by the political branches. The liberals are content to let judges judge, working out the boundaries between constitutional rights and national security.
...the other wishes to transfer power to the Judiciary. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 15, 2008 9:14 AM
Even if we allow that Boudineme (SP) were wrongly decided, it was the administration's vacilation and temporizing which laid the groundwork for the error.
The Bushites have not settled on a consistent framework for the global War of Annihilation against the spiritual jailhouse. Was Osama bin Laden's driver a POW or was he an accused war criminal?
It makes a difference. People on our side are moaning that the raggies we release from confinement are showing up on the battlefield. Well, no duh! If we had released the German soldiers captured in North Africa, of course they would have rejoined the German Army to fight us further in France or Belgium. That would have been their duty, of course.
If it is not lawful war the jailhouse wages, if their fighters are participants in a grand criminal organization, as the SS had been a criminal organization, then we need to make our case to that effect and to proceed accordingly. This we have not done and we are paying the price.
Posted by: :Lou Gots at June 15, 2008 2:40 PM