{"id":2261,"date":"2008-06-12T20:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T01:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2008-06-12T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T02:10:47","slug":"to-render-the-military-independent-of-and-superior-to-the-civil-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/12\/to-render-the-military-independent-of-and-superior-to-the-civil-power\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;<em>to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power<\/em>&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jun\/13\/guantanamo.georgebush\"><strong>Supreme court ruling on right to trial puts Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo future in doubt<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The future of the infamous Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo detention centre was thrown into doubt yesterday after the US supreme court delivered the most serious blow yet to President George Bush&#8217;s policy of holding prisoners indefinitely without trial. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The justices, in a historic ruling, said the 270 prisoners, held for more than six years for alleged links with al-Qaida and the Taliban, have a constitutional right to take their cases to civilian courts on the US mainland.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Lawyers for the prisoners yesterday hailed the ruling as a vindication of their battle to have Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo, in Cuba, closed&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em> \t\t\tWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that  \t\t\tthey are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among  \t\t\tthese are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/13\/washington\/13scotus.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\"><strong>Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">&#8230; The dissenting opinions, one by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the other by Justice Scalia, were vigorous. Each signed the other&rsquo;s, and the other two dissenters, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., signed both. Chief Justice Roberts, writing in more mild tones than Justice Scalia&rsquo;s more apocalyptic dissent, said the decision represented &ldquo;overreaching&rdquo; that was &ldquo;particularly egregious&rdquo; and left the court open to &ldquo;charges of judicial activism.&rdquo; The decision, he said, &ldquo;is not really about the detainees at all, but about control of federal policy regarding enemy combatants.&rdquo; The public would &ldquo;lose a bit more control over the conduct of this nation&rsquo;s foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges,&rdquo; he added &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws  \t\t\tfor establishing Judiciary powers.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices,  \t\t\tand the amount and payment of their salaries&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em>He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil  \t\t\tpower.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em>He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our  \t\t\tconstitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of  \t\t\tpretended Legislation&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em>For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#400040\"><strong><em>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">&#8230; as it should have been from the start. In their dissent, Bush&#8217;s Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse don&#8217;t seem to feel that justice should be blind. They sound more like policy wonks. It&#8217;s the opposite of judicial activism to administer justice independent of considerations like &quot;lose a bit more control over the conduct of this nation&rsquo;s foreign policy to <strong><u>unelected, politically unaccountable judges<\/u><\/strong>&quot;. This case is about the life and lives of human beings, not American foreign policy&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court ruling on right to trial puts Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo future in doubt The future of the infamous Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo detention centre was thrown into doubt yesterday after the US supreme court delivered the most serious blow yet to President George Bush&#8217;s policy of holding prisoners indefinitely without trial. 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