You are the same as our enemies... Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Decisions on the Rights of Detainees

Washington, D.C. -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions upholding the rule of law in the cases involving American-born detainee Yaser Esam Hamdi and the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:

"The Supreme Court's decisions in the Hamdi case and the case involving the Guantanamo detainees are triumphs for the rule of law. The notion that the President has the unchallengeable authority to define the circumstances of a person's detention, especially that of a United States citizen, is contrary to our nation's history and experience.

"The right to counsel and the right to contest government actions in court are among our most cherished liberties. We cannot, and we must not, allow our civil liberties contained in the Constitution to become a casualty in the war on terrorism.

"The Supreme Court's decisions today are a timely reminder of the constant need to evaluate actions taken in the name of national security, no matter how well-intentioned those actions may be."

Nancy Pelosi and by extension the Democrats and a majority of the Supreme Court think that murdering, islamofacist, terrorists who are waging war on the United States are due the same "rights" as you. Perhaps she should speak the USMC about how they are treating 7 Marines and 1 US Navy Corpsman in Camp Pendleton. These traitors have decided that the courts should have the power, in wartime, of the Commander-in-Chief and that you and I are no better than those who would kill us and destroy our nation. Perhaps she's forgotten but I think it more likely that she just doesn't care! Perhaps she could explain that to the families of the World Trade Center jumpers photographed above.

Perhaps they should now find some way to explain these new nuances of combat to the fellow Marines of those two who were "captured" but apparently not accorded the rights of the Geneva Convention (to which the islamofacists are not signatories) and tortured before (?) beheading. We hanged Japanese officers for such behavior.

The thing is, if you still don't get it, what SCOTUS and the Dems are saying is that people who have declared war on us, the USofA, but aren't signatories to the Geneva conventions are due the same rights as combatants of signatories. Not that they, the islamofacists, extend those rights to their prisoners. They torture and/or behead their prisoners. No, that's apparently not the point. Neither is it important that the President of the United States actually serve as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces defending the country (and it's institutions and the individuals who serve in those institutions). What is apparently important to these imbeciles is that, for the first time in all of recorded history, enemies of a state get treatment equal to that afforded the citizens of the country they are attacking. That's you. So now we have 8 servicemen who were held in worse conditions and given worse treatment than the detainees in Gitmo and nobody who is supposed to care about such things does.  ¶ posted by The Editor 2:51 PM