Thanks, Justices. Now we are bent over with our pants around our ankles

What in the world is the majority of the Supreme Court thinking? Justice Scalia, writing in dissent, was blunt:

“America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60–61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.”

The majority of democrats and republicans, in 2001, gave the president the authority to do whatever he deemed necessary to defend America against any further terrorist acts. Since 2001 the President has a 100% rating in protecting the homeland. The actions of the United States Supreme court, on this day, guarantees that rating will be much lower in the weeks and months to come.

Ostensibly our beloved court with Elmer Fudd, “Justice Kennedy” as the swing vote, usurped the legislative and executive powers, creating their own judicial junta. This case was brought before the Supreme Court in 1942. The case law, for Raz and legal neophytes is EX PARTE QUIRIN, 317 U.S. 1.

The court held; (1) That the charges preferred against petitioners on which they are being tried by military commission appointed by the order of the President of July 2, 1942, allege an offense or offenses which the President is authorized to order tried before a military commission. (2) That the military commission was lawfully constituted. (3) That petitioners are held in lawful custody, for trial before the military commission, and have not shown cause for being discharged by writ of habeas corpus. The motions for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus are denied. The orders of the District Court are affirmed. The mandates are directed to issue forthwith.

These were German saboteurs, caught within the borders of the United States, imprisoned in the United States and all but one swung from the yardarm; you guessed it, in the United States.

Let’s not kid ourselves, the ruling handed down from on high today simply told the rest of the world that we are bent over with our pants down around our ankles. Combat soldiers, capturing the enemy, on the field of battle will now be, “witnesses” instead of life takers. Isn’t that special

Conservative Springfield 13JUN08