Nothing like cutting through the B.S.
From the New York Times.
Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 t…

On June 13th, 2008 at 9:47 pm, Joy said:
Ed Mamoud – Yes I read the article earlier. I was one of the ones who said McCain would support this. Clearly he does not or has done an about face. Either way, I applaud his reaction.

I still won’t vote for him though. He has no way to get another Scalia or Roberts or anyone even close to them through. His little gang of 14 saw to that. With a Dem controlled Senate, fuggetaboutit.

In any event Ed, “Mr. National Security”
John McCain kissed in with the libs with that insipid “Close Gitmo” and “no torture” stuff so in part this decision is a manifestation of his own words, and his reaction is nothing more than election year politicking of the worst variety.

John McCain has not only been offensive to Conservatives on other issues including this one, he is now “crying wolf” with his newfound opposition to this decision and no one believes his flip-flopping, and furthermore John McCain should have known better frankly.
But for so much of the Beltway, governance is just a game for Gain.

His “Gang of 13″ memebership is going to haunt him starting now.

My head is still shaking in frustration over this situation…

The next administration will hopefully adjust and the ongoing fight against terrorism won’t be adversely impacted. Many of you are overreacting I think. No big surprise on that count I guess.

I would love to have seen the above rationale used in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor….Back when this country had balls to deal with the Japanese attack..or was Pearl Harbor just a Shinto celebration gone haywire???

On June 13th, 2008 at 2:13 am, dakine said:
From a Constitutional perspective (rather than a public policy one), this was a tough case. However, IMHO, I’m not sure it will end up being a particularly meaningful decision. Bush handled this whole thing very poorly from a process point of view, as was the case with most of the planning and execution with respect to the war in Iraq. The next administration will hopefully adjust and the ongoing fight against terrorism won’t be adversely impacted. Many of you are overreacting I think. No big surprise on that count I guess.

The above is an example of what happens when the ability to write a term paper is valued over a need to use common sense. This decision is dumb as it gets.

It will all but destroy our ability to gather intelligence-unless we form secret Star Chambers on-site and out of sight of the libs for these foreigners who do not have constitutional rights in the first place

The alternative is just don’t take prisoners…

9th circuit says it all.

Gadfly.

I still won’t vote for him though. He has no way to get another Scalia or Roberts or anyone even close to them through. His little gang of 14 saw to that. With a Dem controlled Senate, fuggetaboutit.

On June 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am, Goldwater Knight said:
Hey, ambulance chasers: any of you have the testicular fortitude to volunteer?
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Now that’s more like the seige I’ve come to expect. Well done young man! The ice cream stand thing was a nice touch. At least admit you’re exaggerating for effect. I understand the issue pretty well (as well as my top 10 law school education, 9th circuit clerkship and 20 years of practice permits I should say), and I’m far from a liberal. Have a tremendous weekend big guy.

Yawn. A lawyer, now I know why I called you a useless pig. Yeh, I too have several degrees from top 10 engineering schools and always at the top of my class; I certainly don’t know what your point is. If you happen to know something about habeas corpus you should share it instead of acting like a runt.