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Home Front: WoT
Bipartisan proposal would give terrorists protections, house them in general jail population
2012-05-17
Bipartisan idiocy.
Former government attorneys and defense experts fear that foreign terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to exploit the legal loophole.

The amendment, spearheaded by Reps. Justin Amash (R., Mich.)
primary challenge, anyone?
and Adam Smith (D., Wash), would implement an unprecedented reversal in longstanding U.S. policy by requiring that terrorists be prosecuted in civilian courts—a shift that would also allow them to be housed among general inmates in American prisons.

The amendment would prevent the president from effectively fighting the war on terror, thereby posing a serious threat to the countryÂ’s national security, experts warn.

“In order to be able to successfully fight and win this war, we need to support the notion that this is a real war,” said David Rivkin, who provided legal counsel in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. “Anything that delegitimizes the laws of war is a horrible thing symbolically in terms of undermining a fragile consensus.”

Smith and Amash, Rivkin said, are unraveling a delicate legal balance that permits the president to effectively “fight and win” the war on terror.

Posted by:lotp

#6  Is somebody betting etc?

Not if they're in the least bit aware of the degree to which many gang members have become radicalized converts in prison over the last decade.
Posted by: lotp   2012-05-17 20:49  

#5  Ummmm, P2k.

*sorry*
Posted by: Barbara   2012-05-17 19:55  

#4  I'm with Pk2.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-05-17 19:54  

#3  ...or is someone betting on the general prison population to do what the government lacks the will to do?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-05-17 19:32  

#2  It's kind of weird how these Arab Christians (like Amash) come here to escape from Muslim persecution and then become the biggest boosters of foreign Arab Muslim terrorists. This is another reason I have no problem with Assad's campaign to crush the Sunni insurrection. We don't need any more Arab refugees in this country. And Arab refugees there will be in the millions, if the Sunni Arabs win and give rein to their genocidal tendencies.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2012-05-17 15:47  

#1  The amendment, spearheaded by Reps. Justin Amash (R., Mich.)

If he thinks it's so safe, Just put him with them in jail, He'll change his mind shortly.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-05-17 15:38  

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