Comments on: Hamdan Blog Explosion

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » Blog Archive » The Moose Waxes Rhapsodic

Blue Crab Boulevard » Blog Archive » The Moose Waxes Rhapsodic — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:56:55 +0000

[...] This is in line with the post I linked yesterday from Andrew Cochran that said this decision will force Congress to act. Because, at the end of the day, something has to be done. There are deep problems with the decision by the Supreme Court, not the least of which is their intrusion into treaty-space, which is unprecedented. But there will have to be Congressional action on this issue – and soon. Congress will have to go on record and will no longer be able to blame everything on Bush. [...]

By: Gaius

Gaius — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:20:47 +0000

That’s why I think Cochrane has it right here. Something has to be done.

By: BubbaB

BubbaB — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:16:52 +0000

Just a reminder – The SCOTUS said that the current laws would not allow military tribunals. If Congress changes the laws to allow it, SCOTUS basically said that there would be no constitutional issue.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:27:50 +0000

The conventions were never intended to fit a situation like this.

By: Roland Hesz

Roland Hesz — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:21:30 +0000

Lol, suddenly the Geneve Convention is coming up. Only when it’s convenient, right?

Btw. what about the innocent detainees?
They will die there, and then you will say “sorry, chap, you know how it is.”?

By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Welcome Back 9/10

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Welcome Back 9/10 — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:26:10 +0000

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By: TC@LeatherPenguin

TC@LeatherPenguin — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:29:57 +0000

The SC says this Hamdan mook cannot be tried in a military tribunal.

Fine. No trial, period. He’s a P.O.W.; the Geneva Conventions plainly state no P.O.W. can be tried by his captors while hostilities between continue (out of fear that kangaroo courts would be hanging prisoners at a record clip).

Send his ass back to a cell in Gitmo and tell the ACLU or any other “human/civil” rights group when Osama signs a cease-fire or surrender agreement we’ll be more than happy to crank up “Nuremburg II, Jihadie Edition.”

By: Gaius

Gaius — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:45:29 +0000

I thought so.

By: Hurricane Shirley

Hurricane Shirley — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:40:11 +0000

Wow. Thanks for posting this, Gaius. Makes sense.