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Terrorist Rights-Ruling?

By this reasoning, illegal aliens should be given access to the federal civilian courts to contest their expulsion from the country. Nazi soldiers taken prisoner during World War II and held on American soil should have been allowed to argue their cases in federal court. Instead of shooting terrorists on the battlefield, American soldiers should read them their rights and ship them off to American jails.

In fact, under the majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, suspected terrorists are given more rights than our own soldiers are afforded when charged with crimes. Their cases are restricted to the military courts

Clearly, a vote for Obama is a vote for more liberal justices who would expand such rulings. A vote for McCain is a vote to keep our country safe while giving constitutional rights to the people they were supposed to protect: American

obama supports this do you?

Update:

ashlee vote McCain so the terrorist obama wont get in

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I completely agree with you, this ruling was ridiculous, and are our prisoners of war treated in any way like the way we treat theirs? NO, our soldiers are beheaded and maimed but we let theirs walk free, i find this the stupidest ruling ive heard in a long time.

    Obama will send this country down straight to hell.

    Matt p- nuking is too quick and painless, we shudnt let them have that type of death.

  • Ezz
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I dont get it terrorist are not considered enemy combatants that fall under the Geneva Convention. The rationale for denying them rights is that they do not follow any of the rules of it.

    Although I will say that Illegal Immigrants are protected by international law many of the times.

    But this is just more BS, its the same thing were criminals get more rights and preferences then the victims. I dont know why we give a rats a** about these people who have killed thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians, who only mistake was being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

    The way this keeps going when we catch Bin Laden, we are going to put him up in 5 star hotel and spend millions of dollars on him running his appeal after appeal. Its a freakin joke.

  • 1 decade ago

    Did you read the opinion? It says no such thing.

    All the ruling said was that if we as a country are going to decide suspend habeas corpus we have to explicitly say that. Our Constitution is very explicit.

    I would hate to see a terrorist released because some slick lawyer found this loop whole. Congress now has the power to fix this. Let's hope they do and that President McCain or Obama make us safer while still protecting our values and constitution.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, I do. You may be willing to trust G.W.'s word that these men are terrorists without any specific charges being filed against them. I don't. I wouldn't trust him to tell me the time. One of the generals who was in charge of Guantanamo said that he estimated that 1/4 to 1/3 of the detainees deserved to be there, which means that 2/3 to 3/4 don't. If the U.S. abides by the rules set forth in the Constitution, we get to keep international sympathy and the moral high ground. If we abandon them we lose both and become terrorists ourselves.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    could you deny civil rights to Catholics, or perchance Baptists. Oh! i know how about denying civil rights to Jews, after all they're at conflict with lots of the Arab international. Or is it in basic terms Muslims you've a subject matter with. understand this, what makes this u . s . tremendous is we settle for all and sundry finally. MERRY CHRISTMAS and characteristic a effective day. thanks very a lot, once you're up!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Of course i do.

    to convict without court ruling and a trial? we may as well raise our right hand and yell SEIG HEIL.

    just because they arent american makes them less human? give me a break. sure, they commited crimes, i realize this, but theyre still PEOPLE and STILL deserve a fair trial no matter what they have done. Besides, did you knwo that the surviving members who 'destroyed the twin towers' actually were let go and never were tried to be captured? did you know the bush administration ordered FBI adn CIA to back off of the search for Osama Bin Laden? tells you alot doesnt it? id advise you to do alot of research on this subject. the truth is not as pretty as you think it is- you have been lied to.

    EDIT: go ahead, thumb me down all you want. that doesnt make you any less of a Nazi.

    Heil BuSSh!

  • 1 decade ago

    my view is, Americans did not understand what terrorism is. they treat them as army of a legal establishment. of corse it is good to have a court case with tera if they do the same. but what happens here is a we try to protect human rights and every thing, while they destroy all the rights of ours.

    inteligent human being cause panic or disruption to the normal livelyhood of man kind is a terrorist. if that human being kills people with no mercy, and those who killed have nothing to do with their idias. terrorism is spreding lies, fears, killing innocent, stealing, blackmailing, forging, sumgling (income source) among the community.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't support this insane ruling. I hope Bush orders our military to kill terrorists instead of arresting them. So far, it's still legal to kill enemies in a war...

  • 1 decade ago

    I vote we put someone who is going to fix our nations debt. Also who will fix this war. I think we need someone is not greedy and out for ther own. Someone who can fix health care(its so exspensive now). We need someone who is going ot better us not just them.

    My opinion.

    I dont like politics really.

    I was going to vote hilary, till she dropped.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Easily solved Our fine young men and women will just

    " Take No Prisoners "

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