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2010-01-11 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 good news

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-10 18:54|| 2010-01-10 18:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Under the Geneva Convention, these mooks can be given a drumhead court martial and then executed. They are not soldiers. They are not civilians. They are illegal combatants.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-01-10 19:40|| 2010-01-10 19:40|| Front Page Top

#3 America is not a signator to the Geneva convention, nor any UN war conventinons, or any of that. We only answer to the constitution, and for good reason. Any country that wants to impose its will on the United Stated will be met with total destruction.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-01-10 20:45|| 2010-01-10 20:45|| Front Page Top

#4 And now we see why the lefties stalled Judge Brown's nomination for years. If the Trunks ever manage to nominate and elect a rational President again she should be atop that person's short list for appointment to the Supreme Court.

Posted by AzCat 2010-01-10 21:58|| 2010-01-10 21:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Give it time. The left will do something to eff it up.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-11 00:36|| 2010-01-11 00:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow. Hope.

Posted by lex 2010-01-11 05:36|| 2010-01-11 05:36|| Front Page Top

#7 I wasn't sure whether it was good news or not, at the beginning of the article. When I saw the ACLU's take, I knew it was really good news.

Posted by Bobby 2010-01-11 06:43|| 2010-01-11 06:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I might add that such a forceful decision moves U.S. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the head of the list as a SCOTUS nominee. Ironically, in her youth she was a rabid leftist, "almost Maoist" in her own words, but she has now become a confirmed constitutionalist conservative.

She *was* a W. Bush nominee, who the Democrats stonewalled for two years. Otherwise she has a similar biography to Condoleeza Rice. One heck of a biography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Rogers_Brown

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-11 09:53|| 2010-01-11 09:53|| Front Page Top

#9 The Constitution is a "breathing" document (as the left would say), and now will deal with radical/political Islam.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-01-11 10:32|| 2010-01-11 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Hah, so it doesn't take a "wise Latino woman" to make a good decision?

"War is a challenge to law, and the law must adjust," Brown wrote. "It must recognize that the old wine skins of international law, domestic criminal procedure or other prior frameworks are ill-suited to the bitter wine of this new warfare. We can no longer afford diffidence. This war has placed us not just at, but already past the leading edge of a new and frightening paradigm, one that demands new rules be written. Falling back on the comfort of prior practices supplies only illusory comfort."

There is hope coming from the Judicial Branch.

Our founding fathers were indeed wise and inspired in the creation of the basis for our country.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-01-11 11:14|| 2010-01-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#11 We're not a signatory of some of the Geneva Conventions, 49 Pan? Really? You want to make that case?

Now, we've not signed on to the crazier Seventies-era extensions which legalized non-uniformed combatants and all that Gramscian rubbish, but the old Geneva set is still very much the law of the land.

I sympathize with Judge Brown, but I suspect as long as that addlepated middle-of-the-road simpleton Kennedy is on the Supreme bench, this sort of "screw international law we ain't signed on to" thinking isn't going to make it past SCOTUS.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-01-11 11:50|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-11 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 JohnQC: Comparing the rise of Condoleeza Rice and Janice Brown to "close to the apex" of non-elective power in the US, makes you wonder if there are more black girls and women out there like this. Talk about role models!

Rice's father was a reverend who personally guarded his house from racists with a gun, while his daughter practiced her piano indoors. He firmly told her that she would have to be twice as good as a white person to overcome discrimination. She put that into practice.

Judge Brown is also from Alabama. The two were born only five years apart.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-11 13:50|| 2010-01-11 13:50|| Front Page Top

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