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How about trying to get a bit of logic and lawfulness out of this fat slob? I guess it would not be torture if apple a1175 battery,asus m3000 silver battery he was beat with a sledgehammer because he wouldn’t be being punished, only being hurt to get the nonsense out of his being.

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” –John Adams

“Power always thinks . . . that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.” –John Adams

Wayne, IMO Scalia and others are guilty of conspiracy to commit torture:

c) Conspiracy.— A person who conspires to commit an offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties (other than the penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.

This is not just impeachable.

Absolutely correct. It is CRIMINAL. One has to wonder, though, if he would be convicted of a CRIME, would they still not impeach him according to the Constitution? They are SUPPOSED TO, but until they did, I am not so sure.

Imagine! This kind of thinking is a Supreme Court Justice! And not the only one! Jesus! This is no better than a high school debate tactic. Parsing at it’s best! The Democrats better get in the White House and get a 60 member majority in the Senate or this will perpetuate and get worse! Jesus Christ is he embarrassing. he even said his religion (Catholic-Opous Dei) doesn’t sway his decisions. BULL–SHIT!! Between he and Alito I doubt they ever make a decision without checking with their God. Even if it isn’t other peoples God. Thank God for atheism.

Just think: If Rehnquist had not gotten so ill and died WHEN HE DID, John Roberts (bad as HE is) would only have been up for Associate Justice. And WHO was the front runner for Chief Justice until that transpired? Antonin Scalia…

fletc3her Says:

Scalia is trying to provide a legal foundation for a defense of the indefensible. Those who have ordered torture, witnessed torture, administered torture, and stood by while torture happened have committed war crimes. They should be punished to the full extent of the law for their crimes against humanity. If the United States will not hold them accountable then an international commission should be formed. I only hope that bystanders like Scalia will be held accountable in addition to those directly responsible like Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Tenet, Rumsfeld, and Bush.

Agreed. Even if the Dems get in power, filibuster-proof margins in both Houses of Congress AND the WH, they won’t prosecute these charges. It will HAVE to come from the outside.

An important point about international tribunals: At the Nuremburg trials, one of the courts dealt SOLELY with the German judges and lawyers. Just so, it may come to pass that Scalia, Yoo, other individuals at the DOJ, would all be “made to answer” for their enabling of the crimes of the Bush administration.

I am not holding my breath on this – just pointing out that there is precedence.

Scalia and many others like him within the Bush administration and among its supporters are just like the pigs in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” who in order to justify their own corruption eventually succeeded in perverting every single one of the principles upon which Animal Farm had been established — and in the end, they became every bit as cruel and exploitative (or even more so) as the human beings whom they had thrown out and from whom they had ostensibly been protecting the other animals.

They’re punishing the detainees because they won’t tell the captures what they want to know. If they “talked,” then they wouldn’t be “punished.”

I’m not a lawyer, and even I know this.

From the John McCain website — http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/81626a47-6bbe-4a04-9cf2-62cf292d8f11.htm —

“I have long admired John McCain for his courage, character, and integrity,” said Mr. Olson. “He is the candidate best prepared to lead as commander in chief from day one. John McCain has a deep-rooted conservative philosophy and I trust him to appoint strict constructionists, like Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito, to judicial positions.”

John McCain thanked Mr. Olson for his support, stating, “Ted Olson is among our nation’s most distinguished experts on the rule of law. I am honored to have his support, and I look forward to his counsel and leadership on judicial issues.”

As reported by the Christian Science Monitor in their February 11, 2008 edition –http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0211/p09s01-coop.html

McCain has also made the standard promise to name Supreme Court justices who share the perspectives of Chief Justice John Roberts as well as those of Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas.

Even McPain’s wild-eyed fanatic supporters had better hope that the government never decides to adopt a measure that they don’t like (such as taking away their guns), because the constitutional protections they had previously enjoyed, such as freedom of speech, will have become null and void.