Convicting this guy on a charge quite different from the occasion for his original detention was well worth violating the U.S. Constitution and subverting the rule of law. The Bush administration must be proud.
What a Victory in the War on Terror That Was
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In the old days, ‘we’ (as in, the newspaper reading public) would have never been bothered with these people. They would simply disappear if reasonable trustworthy people working within a self-policing and small discrete community decided something needed to be done about them. The failure of leadership from a political generation that thinks life is a therapy session for ‘reality TV’ and everything can be ‘talked out’ has dumped these scum into the stream of public discourse. Sometimes I miss the old days.
Yeah, David. In the old days, “these people” (which people?) would’ve been taken care of. Like that pesky James Chaney and his ilk (http://www.answers.com/topic/mississippi-civil-rights-worker-murders). A “small discrete community decided something needed to be done about them,” and sure enough, it was. Why bother with “courts” and “therapy” and “talking” when you can just send some pesky northeners to…wherever “disappeared” people go? And we know where that is, don’t we, David?
Oh, but you didn’t mean *them*, did you?
David’s position is “Padilla is unlikable and unsavory. Therefore his rights are irrelevant.”
This is a recipe for totalitarianism. *Nothing* permits us to violate *anyone’s* rights, ever.
While I’m at it…
What will the Lew Rockwell Institute make of this? Cato, that hotbed of warmongering neoconism, wrote as a friend of the court on behalf of an al Qaeda terrorist…
Jeez, it’s much worse than they ever expected — neocons for al Quaeda!
When those entrusted with maintaining a society based upon the rule of law fail or cannot act, whether it be the parents, the teachers, or the civic leaders, then it falls upon good individuals, with wisdom and humility and intentions carefully measured, to do something nonetheless, with or without the protection of the law.