The Supreme Court Gives GITMO Detainees Constitutional Rights

On days like today it is hard to sit down and type. On days like today my heart really isn’t in it, but I am going to try. I have no choice, I feel as though I must type, because days like today are the most important days to type. So here goes.

Today is the day that America lost forever the ability to ever defend herself again. The supreme court has ruled in favor of the enemy combatants held at GITMO, they have ruled that the enemy is entitled to the rights of Americans citizens to a civilian trial.

Somehow the supreme court has decided that not only does the UNITED STATES constitution apply to people who are not citizens (I’m not talking about resident aliens), but is also applies to our enemies. People who were captured on the battlefield fighting against us are now entitled to a trial in American courts. This is unprecedented.

Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority said, “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.” Fine, nothing wrong with that, but we aren’t talking about Americans here, we are talking about people who are fighting against us.

Writing for the minority decision Justice Antonin Scalia said “the decision will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”

Here is the problem, this will affect any future confrontation that America may need to engage in in the future.

And in a truly stunning turn of events Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind may actually benefit from this decision. He was facing a military tribunal now he may have the right to a civilian trial on American soil. Funny how the man who planned the murders of three thousand Americans on September 11th because he hates America suddenly adheres to the American justice system when it benefits this mother fucker.

The supreme court feels that the rights of the enemy are more important than the rights of you and I. And the Democrats agreed and cheered the decision. I just don’t have anything else to say about this. Here are the traitors who gave constitutional rights to the mass murdering pieces of shit; Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, and John Paul Stevens. The usual suspects. While those in the minority were Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

But on a side note what is almost as disappointing about this is the fact that I thought we had turned a corner with the appointments of Alito and Roberts to the bench, but we still seem to be in the minority. After a few great rulings by the supreme court we get this disastrous ruling. It may have been a 6-3 decision if Sandra Day O’Conner was still on the bench, so maybe we are closer. That will change if the next president has a supreme court appointment. We will never gain control of the supreme court, it was just a pipe dream. President Bush managed to stem the liberal activist supreme court tide with his two great nominations but it wasn’t enough. Perhaps it will be enough to tread water but it looks as though we are going to continue to swim against the tide.

Today is the day we lost the war, not because of our soldiers overseas, but because of the politics at home and now the supreme court. But we lost more than the Iraq war, we lost all future wars that we may have had to enter.

We do not deserve to have our soldiers overseas fighting for our rights when the people at home aren’t willing to fight for our soldiers. Why should we lose another American life overseas for an unappreciative American public, and a supreme court that feels the enemy is more important? We have grown soft and weak.

The war is lost, it is time to bring the troops home.