Courting Disaster
The campaign of the closet liberal Republican nominee John McCain got a boost last week from the lefties on the Supreme Court with a ruling that terrorists in Guantanamo Bay should have access to American courts. The 5-4 ruling is just a preview of the suicidal thinking that would be reinforced by high court appointments of the Obama administration.
The five libs on the court–Breyer, Ginsburg, Kennedy, Souter and Stevens–handed a victory to our enemies by ruling that terrorist prisoners can take their cases to American civilian courts, and invoke habeas corpus, permitting them to challenge their imprisonment and forcing the government to justify their incarceration. This ruling expands rights of prisoners of war far beyond those granted by the Geneva conventions.
These prisoners are not civilian criminals. They are warriors in a worldwide conflict which has as one of its principal goals the destruction of the people, government, and culture of the United States. They are all prepared to give their lives to achieve that goal.
Yet they are also keenly aware of and only too happy to avail themselves of the protections of our legal system. They have American lawyers who will use the Constitution not only spare their lives, but enable them to further their murderous intentions.
Defendants in our legal system are given access to all evidence amassed against them, through discovery. That means that defendants, their attorneys, and anyone else they know will have access to the results if not the sources of intelligence in the war against the terrorists. This intelligence is gathered at the risk and cost of lives of Americans and our allies. Information that our troops and intelligence people die to obtain will be handed over to the enemy.
Defendants have the right to face their accusers. In these cases, those would include our troops, intelligence analysts and informants–all of whom would be identified and targeted by the defendants and their allies. Again, we would be handing information to the enemy and endangering the very people who are fighting to keep us safe. The chilling effect on all involved is certain to complicate our anti-terror efforts.
The Bush administration has fought to keep terrorists out of American civilian courts for years. It is noteworthy that both of the current president’s Supreme Court justices–Roberts and Alito–voted with the dissenting minority in this decision.
John McCain is liberal on a host of issues, but for what it’s worth, we have his promise that he would appoint justices in the same mold as Roberts and Alito, if he were to occupy the oval office. We have Barack Obama’s assurance that his appointees would be in the mold of the liberal justices on the court. No stronger argument to vote for John McCain exists.
Posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 05:14AM
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