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One Step Backwards
By Lt Col P
Sorry, folks, for the silence on the net. It seems that we've all been quite busy. Good thing, then, that UJ has the time to cover all the bases.
While I believe the decision by the administration to continue military commissions to try the suspects at Gitmo is a good one, that is far from the only problem we face in looking at our policies regarding terrorists. What happens now that a federal court has ruled that all detainees at Ngram Airbase have habeas corpus rights? Not just those transferred there from abroad, but even those picked up on the battlefield there. In the cases where habeas proceedings have been held on enemy detainees 25 of 30 were released because there was not evidence that fits the requirements of federal court to hold them.We are well on the way back to the pre 9/11 law enforcement approach to terrorism and that is a mistake we should not make again. They are at war with us and unless we reciprocate, they will win in ways they never should. That will cost American lives.
Yes. It. Will. I'm about three-quarters through Ghost Wars, and UJ's point is one of the enduring lessons. War is war; it's not crime. We didn't ask for this war, it declared on us. We should fight it with every means at our disposal, and it is a capital error to confuse war with anything other than what it is.
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'We are well on the way back to the pre 9/11 law enforcement approach to terrorism and that is a mistake we should not make again. They are at war with us and unless we reciprocate, they will win in ways they never should. That will cost American lives.'
We are there already in my opinion. Did you actually expect the people in power now to learn anything from 9/11? Of course not. I'm really beginning to think they don't care either, but I'm sure they will feed you a line of s&it that they do. Many of them don't even know the past or history for that matter. It is truly, truly sad...
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The court does not have any authority to make such a ruling. But since they have elected to commit the crime of aiding and giving comfort to the enemy, the logical consequence of their actions is that they should be removed, tried and terminated. The authority of any and all US courts ends at the border of the country except on US soil in other places such as embassies.
There is absolutely no legitimate legal basis for the ruling, and the easiest way to circumvent it ( which is what should be done) is to take no prisoners at all. Screw the law of land warfare, adhere to the existing Geneva accords which state that ILLEGAL combatants are afforded no rights whatsoever and may legally be executed upon capture. If they are dead they cannot become prisoners, and given the massive lack of any intelligence in our legal community and system, this will prevent them from exercising their colossal ignorance if the situation does not develop. My life is worth a shitpot more than their dumbass socialist agenda.