Thursday, June 12, 2008

I Object!

I always wanted to stand up in a court room and yell that out. But i am not a lawyer, so i won't get that luxury. So i will make my objections known here in this forum.

I would have yelled this out in the Supreme Court when this ruling came down.

I want to lay this out first, before continuing my thought, at least to an exceptable point where you will understand what the heck i am talking about. I do not care for the current war going on. I did agree with the war in Afghanistan, seeing as to how they were giving a free ride to the perpetrators of the infamous attacks on this country.

I also do not agree with the plan of detaining "Enemy Combatants" in a camp half way across the world. Now in war, it is common to detain the enemy soldiers, but only during the course of war. It is also normally in the region of the war, that the prisoners are held. So i feel this camp at Gitmo is just plain wrong and needs to be closed.

But i have digressed a little bit. The Supreme Court ruled that the detainees at Gitmo have the constitutional right to question, in court, their detention. I agree that they have the right to question the government on their detention. But it is not their constitutional right. Most people don't realize it, but the constitution only applies to actual US citizens, no one else. If you read the heading on the Constitution you will see that it reads, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, i don't think this was a mistake.

I feel that the Court got the constitutional part of this one wrong. Plus you may call them Enemy Combatants, but they were fighting against our soldiers in their country. But you know what, we did the exact same thing when the British attacked us and fought us on our soldier.

Viva Liberty!

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