Detainees rejoice at recent Supreme Court ruling
By Skyla Bryant
The Pampa News
A Lunchtime Liberty Update from the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) was delivered to my e-mail inbox this past Friday. Embedded within the update was a link to an article concerning a recent Supreme Court decision to allow prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, read “enemy combatants,” to proceed with lawsuits against the federal government.
According to the article, titled “The Deepening Detainee Disaster,” certain justices are now seeking, based on the recent high court decision, to expedite the detainee court cases which now amount to a veritable flood upon our justice system. The end result could quite possibly mean a ticket out of jail and a free pass into these vast United States for a good number of the suspected terrorists.
As a ‘for instance,’ the article cited the plea of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo. Parhat wants a federal judge to free him forthwith into the United States - “… not back to his homeland,” the CFIF article states, “but into ours here in the area of Washington, D.C., USA!”
The article reports that the detainees and their legal representation are even demanding access to “classified national security information” to mount their legal campaigns.
CFIF singles out a couple of judges in particular who have vowed to facilitate the detainee cases with the utmost alacrity and speed. CFIF reports that Judge Thomas F. Hogan has declared the intention of putting other cases on hold to promote fast-action in favor of the detainees while Judge Richard L. Leon, it states, has proposed to “resolve” the cases within the year.
CFIF worries that in an attempt “to be fair” the American legal system may very well oversee the release (or re-release) of dangerous terrorists onto American soil to wreak unknown havoc on the nation’s security. Not only that, but America’s own dovish legal pontificators may even provide these self-same terrorists or, excuse me, these “presumed-to-be” terrorists, with classified material perhaps vital to the well-being of the nation. How insane is that?
An enemy combatant is not the equivalent of a United States citizen involved in a criminal process or even a non-legal involved in a criminal process. Merriam-Webster Online defines a criminal as the following: “1: one who has committed a crime”; or “2: a person who has been convicted of a crime.”
The online dictionary defines a terrorist as a derivative of “terrorism” which it describes as “the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” See the difference? A common murderer or thief is not trying to deliver a blow to the heart of the nation. The country as a whole is not at-risk with most types of domestic crime.
A terrorist, however, strives to deal a warlike wallop that strikes at the structure and the integrity of the national unit. The terrorist’s goal is to weaken, undermine and ultimately overthrow. American jurists, wake up!
August 10th, 2008 | Category: Lawsuits against US Gov't, SCOTUS ruling
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