SUPREME COURT GIVES BACK WHAT’S BEEN MISSING: RIGHTS
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political Activist
This week’s ruling in the Supreme Court dealt what many see as a severe setback in denying these 270 detainees their rights under the criminally negligent, Bush administration.
Yes, that’s right:
Detainee rights.
Not prisoners of war. Not captured enemy soldiers.
Detainees.
Remember that word and let it roll around in your head for a second: Detainees.
Go ahead. Say it one more time with me kids: Detainees.
Have you heard enough yet? I sincerely hope so. Because this travesty will be with us for decades to come. It’ll become a blotched stain on our nation’s history–as a country whom upheld the rule of law and was a foresworn runner of all things freedom, democracy, and rights.
Need some more convincing?
Then let me explain.
Someone whom is detained by the cops for questioning and or suspected of a crime are always given their rights under our laws. It’s been the bedrock principle in our nation’s illustrious history ever since George Washington became this nation’s first President.
Our founding fathers made it so that the Constitution was a solvent document that could be used to keep our nation and its government alive and in check.
But ever since 2001, the Bush administration had taken upon themselves to ignore that fragile document and become masters and kings themselves; without just cause.
Simply by detaining 270 terror suspects in a camp not on US soil is against every standing law created by this country since its inception.
But to deny them their rights and hold them indefinitely without trial or charge?
Not even the most egregious regime on this planet does these things! They recognize that in order to be convicted of a crime, you have to be charged with such said crimes and then be giving your rights under law!
But sadly, the Bush administration has made their intent quite clear: We don’t recognize your stinking laws! We’ll do whatever we damn well please, and you’re going to like it!
The victory handed down by the Supreme Court is a direct slap in the face to Bush–by the very judges that he himself had appointed to tip the court vastly to the right.
To inherently validate every crime that this bastard government had committed so vagrantly these last 8 years.
Denying people their rights is just another nail in this administration’s coffin.
And history will not be so kind to them–once the next administration takes over and starts digging into the last two terms of this corrupt one.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com
Labels: Bush administration, detainee rights, President Bush, Supreme Court ruling
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