The Young Turks

You should have remained a blastocyst, or even just a zygote.  Then the religious right would be falling all over themselves to insure that you are legally termed a human being.

I don't know if you could get work as a zygote though. 

 

by bfaul on 01/15/2008 04:02:27 PM EST

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if you're part of an al Qaeda sleeper cell.

The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the President has the right to permanently detain enemy combatants, and deny them habeas corpus access to U.S. civil courts during time of war.

Gitmo is no more “American soil” than leased military bases in Okinawa or Germany. So the detainees are non U.S. citizens who have never set foot on U.S. soil. The ACLU is trying to give these enemy combatants rights and protections guaranteed by the Constitution, which is unprecedented during time of war. Does anyone remember German POWs or Japanese POWs being afforded habeas corpus? They were housed in POW camps in places like TX, LA, MS (on U.S. soil). Sure, the big guys received an international trial prior to their hanging, but it had nothing to do with our constitution.

We already know that Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Thomas will rule against this nonsense. In fact, listen to Scalia describe his amazement that the Court could even consider such a ridiculous case.

“Scalia dismissed the idea that the detainees have rights under the U.S. Constitution or international conventions, adding he was "astounded" at the "hypocritical" reaction in Europe to Gitmo. "War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," he says on a tape of the talk reviewed by NEWSWEEK. "Give me a break."

Challenged by one audience member about whether the Gitmo detainees don't have protections under the Geneva or human-rights conventions, Scalia shot back: "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy." Scalia was apparently referring to his son Matthew, who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq.”

A few weeks ago, the Gitmo detainees presented their case to the Court. Scalia was not very sympathetic.

''We had 400,000 German prisoners -- 400,000 -- in our country in World War II,'' Justice Antonin Scalia noted, ``and there was not a single habeas petition.''

''Do you have a single case in the 220 years of our country . . . in which habeas was granted to an alien in a territory that was not under the sovereign control of the United States?'' Scalia asked the detainees' attorney, Seth Waxman, adding later that ``there's not a single one in history.''

Antonin Scalia is arguably the smartest guy sitting on the Court, and he’s certainly smarter than any of the liberal wiener dogs that you guys read on the moonbat liberal blogs. He is having problems finding a precedent for giving a jury trial to a non-citizen POW who has never even visited America.

by KenTX on 01/15/2008 04:48:42 PM EST

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