Here we go again.
The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
“To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the constitution and the country,” the court panel said.
In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn’t strip Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident, of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court.
It ruled the government must allow al-Marri to be released from military detention.
The liberal judges and liberals in general, the blood of futures Americans from terriorists are on you. You are feeding the terriorists hope, that they can kill Americans at will.
I’m just surprised that it took the 4th Circuit to issue this one.
Oh, and smarter trolls, please. There is a stronger likelihood that terrorists will come from the ranks of OW’s conservative trolls than from the Middle East.
Yeah, what Daryl said. Why do the dudes who wrote the Constitution hate America so much?
Yes, please let conservatives try to defend a President’s ability to order an American citizen held without charges indefinitely. The more they do, the more they prove their hate of freedom.
Is Daryl serious? Yikes.
The judges for the Constitution, Motz: Clinton appointee
Gregory: Clinton recess appointee REAPPOINTED by GWBush
and for totalitarian government
Henry Hudson: Bush appointee
THIS is why we need a Democratic president, so we don’t shred the Constitution.
Was that Daryl, or the other Daryl?
Jesus, mouth-breathing does destroy your brain.
Wow. Not a single regular right wing troll here arguing on behalf of detaining American citizens indefinitely without charge.
Come on Frank, Dugger, pedro, Farris etc. etc. you gonna let Daryl get all the crazy?
Contact the Goverment, their Data Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform’s malfunctioning again.
I can predict what Dugger, Farris and the rest will say, Jack: “You should be pleased you want all terrorists released anyway hargle blargs” and some stuff about how we never cheer hard enough when the government capture yet another #2 man in al-Qaeda.
They’re checking to ensure they parrot the most current talking points. It’s all so confusing when the goalposts move so quickly.
Enlightened Liberal -
Since you consider yourself “enlightened,” perhaps you should actually read the article in question, which plainly states that Ali al-Marri is a legal resident of the US, not a citizen as you seem to claim.
If you have trouble understanding the difference between the two, consult any high school civics textbook.
Though al-Marri legally resided in the US under a current visa, he is an alien, not a citizen. So it seems to me that we are actually dealing with an immigration issue.
Many of the terror suspects that we have arrested are naturalized citizens who arrived in America on visas and then applied for citizenship. Others are foreign nationals who were residing here illegally, usually because their visas had expired. And then there are people like Johnny Walker, the American citizen from Marin county who ended up joining the Taliban and fighting American troops on Afghan soil.
Does Walker’s citizenship status protect him from prosecution as a enemy combatant? Should resident aliens be given the protections of citizens under the Constitution, even though they are not citizens and may be residing here illegally? Should we be more careful about screening aliens before granting them naturalized citizenship?
Despite the rhetoric of those like Harry Reid, residence does not automatically equal citizenship. Until we clear up the ambiguities between the two, we will continue to face problems similar to Mr. al-Marri’s.