Terrorists have equal rights?

Since when have we, as a nation, conferred Constitutional rights to enemy combatants and terrorists? Well, the answer would be today, the 12th of June, 2008. Unbelievable. Should we ask if they'd like to vote this year in November? Hamas has already endorsed Barack Obama; maybe the rest of the terrorist world would like to pick sides. However, after another typical flip flop by Obama, as of June 4, 2008, Hamas has decided to "un-endorse" Obama.

Now, back to the point, in a Supreme Court ruling today, "Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Thursday in a historic decision on the balance between personal liberties and national security."

Remember, these rights were not afforded to the Nazis or the Japanese after the horrors the military forces of both nations committed in second world war. Remember, more people died on 9/11 than in Pearl Harbor.

I'd like know what made the judges rule the way they did considering the lies and scams from Nancey Pelosi and Friends about waterboarding. After the outcry about the horrors and inhumanity of waterboarding, we've afforded Constitutional rights to our enemies who torture their captives with power tools, electrocution, meat cleavers, screw drivers, and blow torches. All of that without even considering the fact they're also burning people alive. All of this was found in a "how-to" manual found in an al-Qaeda safe house.

I'm all for doing the right thing and not violating what's right and wrong, but why in the hell are we giving them Constitutional rights?! They already get better treatment in their prisons than American convicts. They get three ethnically-correct meals per day. They're afforded prayer time. They're being given Koran's at the expense of the US taxpayers. We can't even legally do that for our own school children. These judges are undermining our ability to fight a war on terror. They're taking our ability to hold enemy captured enemy combatants off the battlefield.

I just don't get it. I can't understand how people can be so anti-American and side with the enemy on such a regular basis.

Here are some precious quotes from Justice Kennedy:

“The costs of delay can no longer be borne by those who are held in custody,” Justice Kennedy wrote, assuming the pivotal role that some court-watchers had foreseen.

“The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”

More snippets from the NY Times piece:

Joining Justice Kennedy’s opinion were Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter. Writing separately, Justice Souter said the dissenters did not sufficiently appreciate “the length of the disputed imprisonments, some of the prisoners represented here today having been locked up for six years.”


The last I checked, enemy combatants were considered POWs and could be held for the duration of the war. How long was McCain held? He wasn't granted any special rights by his captors.

Justice Scalia gets it:

Reflecting how the case divided the court not only on legal but, perhaps, emotional lines, Justice Scalia said that the United States was “at war with radical Islamists,” and that the ruling “will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed.”

“The nation will live to regret what the court has done today,” Justice Scalia said.

John Kerry doesn't get it. He applauded the ruling saying, “Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what almost everyone but the administration and their defenders in Congress always knew,” he said. “The Constitution and the rule of law bind all of us even in extraordinary times of war. No one is above the Constitution.”

Perhaps John Kerry and his cronies need to apply the same logic about the convenience of turning the Constitution on and off with a switch to the Second Amendment.

Thank you, Mr. Kerry, and the rest of you America haters for ensure the deaths of more American men and women in uniform as well as the increased likelihood of repeated terror attacks in this country as we can no longer hold enemy combatants.

Thanks again.