Re: Bush takes another hit in the War Against Terrorism
The problem with trying people like him is he gets the right to confront his accussers. That is, CIA and other intellegence agents and people who have infultrated Al Qaeda. The Gov can't do that w/o getting people killed
Alright Ralph, who says?<br />Following your arguement, the government would be able to label anyone, at anytime, without proof, an enemy/terrorist and lock them up without due process.<br />Sure it's nice to be able to trust the government with its accusations but in reality, they can't.<br />Here is a perfect example of The Constitutional checks and balances being used. Finally a judge takes the Constitutional stand and we start crying foul.<br />Plywoody's 100% correct here.<br />You and many others are making your arguement completely on hearsay and are willing to argue against The Constitution. <br /><br />It is due process that truth, guilt and innocence is determined.<br /><br />[/quote] Bush wants to prosecute them in special courts and the Judiciary says he can't because there is no declaration of war. That is the issue. [/quote]<br /><br />Here is another area that the government wants it both ways. The Constitution is very clear who makes war.<br />There hasn't been any ammendment made to legally deviate against what is written.<br />
This is a Constitutional check and balance that continues to be ignored!<br />It gets even more sick.<br />Since the legislative branch never has the guts to legally declare war. It's been able to give the executive branch a nod to action. Then when we're commited they now go back and undercut that agreement. <br /><br />What congress is doing now is a perfect example!<br />The executive branch in thier quest for power is happy to go to war without a legal declaration.<br />The legislative branch is perfectly fine with going to war without a legal declaration because it lets then off the hook when things go wrong!<br />In the mean time honest congressional debate goes out the window. Honest consensis from the people goes out the window!<br /><br />Many here are fine with the fact that due process can be ignored by our Attorney General. Yet not hear a word from him about the Executive branch illegally declaring war.<br /><br />There are tag lines, signatures and all kinds of crys quoteing the Constitution.<br />Here's one used many times here.<br />"Those who would give up freedom for security, deserve neither."<br />Yet those that have used this are perfectly willing to do just that.
<br /><br />Yeah, there were a lot of people that were willing to let many children die in Waco, because someone called them "cultists", without due process. Yet when due process came around
every last one of them were aquitted!<br /><br />The last Attorney General was a joke and this one is trying to out do that one.<br /> <br />
IMO
