McCain is making a play for the crazy-ass neocon vote again. On the campaign trail yesterday, he turned up the rhetoric about the Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush that detainees (which I think is an invented word) have the right to Habeas Corpus.
The Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.
Really? Worse than Dred Scott where the Supreme Court ruled that black people could not be citizens, thus couldn’t sue in US courts?
Really? Worse that Plessy v. Ferguson which said that separate but equal was OK?
Really? Worse than Bowers v Hardwick which allowed the government to regulate bedroom behavior?
Senator McCain, if you are going to be outraged, at least try to be outraged at the utter disregard for the constitution that the head of your party has made into an art form. I’m not saying that these people at Gitmo should be set free, but they should have the right to hear what the evidence against them is and have a right to defend themselves. To continue to hold them in a la-la land between POW and criminal is an affront to everything that this country stands for. Give them their day in court, that’s what we do in America.