Posted by
Bill Crawford on Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:48:46 PM
It seems that Justice Kennedy spent a little time meandering through over 130 pages of opinion to conclude that Constitutional rights should be extended to a pack of miscreants who don't honor the most basic of human rights, don't recognize any of the protocols of the Geneva Convention and are more than willing to use any comfort we send their way to resume their jihad against America.
I'm still going through the particulars, but let's say up front that I'm less than compelled to extend charity to aband of truly dangerous people when we are at war. That is the central concept here: in a war, prisoners are held for the duration.
This is not to say that there isn't a significant portion of America that is fatigued beyond belief of this war and the trappings of Guantanamo Bay. The problem here is that there are too many here who don't seem to recognize we are at war. This is something that Al-Queda and their supporters are all too willing to try and exploit. They know this is a war, and they are always trying to ju-jitsu their way past an America that they can never stand up to face-to-face.
Now we will have a parade of lawyers going Judge shopping for these bozos. The biggest contingent will head for the Ninth Circuit in California, and will be more than happy to pay the extra fifteen bucks for the carry on bag on Jet Blue. At least they will be doing their part to keep the airlines of America in the black.