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Terrorized by the Supreme Court

by Steve Chapman

A lot of people who strongly believe in the war on terror are not above sowing a little terror of their own. From the reaction to last week's Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo, you would think the detainees were all going to be trained, armed and set free at Ground Zero, with free shuttle service to the nearest airport.

John McCain denounced the ruling, which said inmates may ask for federal court review under a procedure known as habeas corpus, as "one of the worst decisions i ...

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Posted by: J LaMarr
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Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:39 AM

Steve, I find 2 major faults with your thinking. The first is that our military does not need to be looking for evidence on the battlefield to incarcerate a prisoner. The second is the degree of evidence needed to hold a person can compromise our intelegence gathering. This has already happened in the 1993 twin towers bombing trial. When this case was accepted I believed that this very outcome would happen. Not because it is constitutional but because in every case where the reach and power of the court has been questioned the court has grabbed the power. We are becoming a nation that is being controlled by 9 individuals. An example of unintended consequences is in Row v Wade. Until his death Earl Warren always said that the ruling was not "abortion on demand." Kennedy claims we should bow to the wisdom of judges, the same as Earl Warren did.

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