I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I will dream of your poetic words tonight.

I”m a ‘Jesus’ Freak if that means I believe in Him.

However, I very much applaud the Supreme’s Court decision and listened to the entire oral argument TWICE via http://www.c-span.org. I think the bible has a lot to say about treating the prisoners right and I think our founding fathers, who WROTE the constitution, were godly men.

Not all of us ‘Jesus’ freaks are mindless or Republican. After 18 years of being a Republican, I am now ‘unaffiliated’ officially.

THanks

At least they are not “Jack booted”. So have you finished cleaning all the windows and restrooms in your “office building” you claim to own? See ya in Montrose this weekend.

You might want to look at the foreign press, they are.

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The Supreme Court held [Sec. VI(D)(ii) of the court's opinion] that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions applies to all detainees captured in military conflicts, including Al Qaeda members or other “enemy combatants,” and not merely (as the Administration asserted) to soldiers who fight for established countries which are signatories to the Conventions.

Article 3 requires that detainees be tried by a “regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples,”

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http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/06/significance-of-hamdan-v-rumsfeld.html

and laughter scares Bush N company.

“These are people that have made it clear in many instances that they would kill Americans if they got out.”

- if you had any evidence against them they would have never gotten out.
- the three guantanamo prisoners killed last week or so by “suicide” must of had alot of evidence against them because we never took them to trial
- and of course the “one or two” innocents which were unavoidably picked up in the sweeps
and held under torture for three years outside of the law with no hope to make it out alive or see their family again, if they do make it out of course they have not a single good reason to embrace our policies of torture, bombing cities, ‘unavoidable collateral damage’, and “we dont do body counts”.

and laughter scares Bush N company.

“These are people that have made it clear in many instances that they would kill Americans if they got out.”

- if you had any evidence against them they would have never gotten out.
- the three guantanamo prisoners killed last week or so by “suicide” must of had alot of evidence against them because we never took them to trial
- and of course the “one or two” innocents which were unavoidably picked up in the sweeps
and held under torture for three years outside of the law with no hope to make it out alive or see their family again, they have no good reason to embrace our policies of carpetbombing, ‘unavoidable collateral damage’, and “we dont do body counts”.

Unfortunately, the Right is focused primarily on the political battle available on any issue. Their mantra is “must win – must rule” rather than give any thought to the country’s honor or the value of the Constitution.

I’m sick of how “Christian” they claim to be when they would treat humans as less than dirt. That the Republicans and this administration would battle for the right to torture and degrade people makes me ill. I don’t care who the prisoners are or what they did, America doesn’t have to behave like rabid animals in response. A little self-control would be nice – and perhaps acting like the civilized beings we claim to be.

Adhering to the rule of law even in adversity is what lends us credence and is the real reason to be proud of who and what we are as a nation – we’d be wise to remember that. The whole world is watching.

Comment by eblair #105

eblair,

…or “law and order”…

wow, I hope not. The rule of law means everyone, even the President, respects and defers to what the courts decide, especially the Supreme Court, which has the last say in our system.

That’s the rules of the game. If you think the President can ignore a SCt decision, even if it is incorrect, then you are rejecting our constitutional democracy.

This ruling is uniting the right-wing base again. Liberals and their lap dogs in the Democratic Party have reminded us why we do not trust them to fight the WOT. Thank you.”

what in god’s name are you talking about???? this decision sets free absolutely zero terrorists. what the Court said is that the President has to obey the Constitution, even during war time. The President’s conduct is subject to the limitations of statute and treaty–this is what we mean by the rule of law. The military commissions the President ordered are impermissible because they do not comply with the Uniform Code of Military Justice or governing treaties we signed. All we need to do — all the president and Congress need to do — is order the establishment of tribunals that follow the UCMJ and applicable treaty.

even us crazy liberals have no interest in freeing terrorists. we would like people to get a fair hearing. if we are holding someone at G Bat or elsewhere who has done nothing wrong, they should be set free. That’s not freeing terrorists. That’s justice.

I don’t trust the current administration to fight the nebulous, ill defined “war on terror”. instead of focusing all our resources on getting Bin laden and his followers, we invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. That is rank incompetence.