SCOTUS Agrees To Take Al Qaeda Imprisonment Case
Posted on December 5, 2008
It will be very interesting to see which way the Supreme Court rules
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether an al Qaeda suspect can be indefinitely imprisoned in the United States without charges, a test of President George W. Bush’s war-on-terrorism powers.
The nation’s highest court said it would hear an appeal by a Qatari national, Ali al-Marri, the only person now being held in the United States as an “enemy combatant,” arguing that Bush exceeded his powers and disregarded fundamental American legal principles.
While President-elect Barack Obama has strongly opposed Bush’s policies and has vowed to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, he and his aides have not said what position they will take in Marri’s case.
So, on one side we have people, namely conservatives, who see no problem with holding stone cold terrorists as enemy combatants indefinitely, and on the other side, liberals, who think we should treat them like people caught at a DUI checkpoint. Oh, and then there is president-elect (almost) Barack Obama, who, as typical, doesn’t take a stance on a tough issue.
But, guess who is at the heart of the case?
Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Unionwho represents Marri, said he was pleased the Supreme Court accepted the case for review.
I guess the ACLU forgot that the A stands for American, which Marri certainly isn’t. But, hey, nothing like assigning American constitutional rights to terrorists who would as soon slit their ACLU lawyers throats as look at them, eh?
I will say, the biggest mistake President Bush made in the war on terrorism was in stating that the Geneva Convention did not apply to these folks. He should have stated that we would follow the GC and consider them enemy combatants, thereby allowing us to hold these scumbags until the end of the WoT, per the GC.
Then again, groups like the ACLU and Democrats would still have pitched hissy fits and tried to defend the little darlings.
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Forget about Geneva Convention, how do you hold someone indefinitely without charging them for something, based on suspicion from the same intelligence agency that said Saddam Hussein had both weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al-qaida, get real this is just a war on the Muslim people by a right-wing christian radical nut named G.W. Bush, and anyone who agrees with this should try being held for years without charges access to a lawyer or anything, lets see how much they would agree then (too many idiots in this world).