LIE OF THE WEEK: 06-20-2008
President Bush on the rights of Guantanamo Detainees:
"With this decision, hardened terrorists, hardened foreign terrorists, now enjoy certain legal rights previously reserved for American citizens. This is precisely the kind of judicial activism that frustrates the American people and the best way to change it is to put Republicans in charge in the Senate and John McCain in the White House."
THE TRUTH: Judicial activism is when judges rule on issues based on their own values against the wishes of the majority of Americans (such as abortion or same sex marriage). The only time this has ever been justified is during the civil rights era when the majority of Americans held biased racial views and the courts rightly overrode that. In this case, the judges are right to protect the civil rights of those detained by America, lest we turn into a despotic country that does not respect anyone's rights at all. The Bush Administration has been playing loosely with the law ever since 9/11 and using security as an excuse for that abuse. Guantanamo Bay is non-American territory that also does not fall under any other country's laws, which is exactly why they chose it to house the prison for those captured in the war on terror. If they were held in America, they would be subject to our laws and if they were held elsewhere, they would be subject to that locality's laws. The US Supreme Court was absolutely right in this case when they put Guantanamo under US Court jurisdiction because that is the only way around the corrupt activities promoted by this corrupt administration.
"With this decision, hardened terrorists, hardened foreign terrorists, now enjoy certain legal rights previously reserved for American citizens. This is precisely the kind of judicial activism that frustrates the American people and the best way to change it is to put Republicans in charge in the Senate and John McCain in the White House."
THE TRUTH: Judicial activism is when judges rule on issues based on their own values against the wishes of the majority of Americans (such as abortion or same sex marriage). The only time this has ever been justified is during the civil rights era when the majority of Americans held biased racial views and the courts rightly overrode that. In this case, the judges are right to protect the civil rights of those detained by America, lest we turn into a despotic country that does not respect anyone's rights at all. The Bush Administration has been playing loosely with the law ever since 9/11 and using security as an excuse for that abuse. Guantanamo Bay is non-American territory that also does not fall under any other country's laws, which is exactly why they chose it to house the prison for those captured in the war on terror. If they were held in America, they would be subject to our laws and if they were held elsewhere, they would be subject to that locality's laws. The US Supreme Court was absolutely right in this case when they put Guantanamo under US Court jurisdiction because that is the only way around the corrupt activities promoted by this corrupt administration.
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