Friday, June 13, 2008
Boumediene v. Bush
I find it interesting that the ACLU and Amnesty International both claim this victory (or come close) and are looking for donations based on the suit. Mayer-Brown took the case Pro Bono - and that's not to say that this is a victory for all of us and that includes Amnesty and the ACLU, but the press for donation makes my question, at the end of the day, if self preservation doesn't weigh so hard that organizations like this won't identify the fact that they weren't funding the work. Both organizations target admiirable goals, but I recieve so many printed requests and phone calls that I start to question the spending of funds and how much $$ actually to the aid of victims.
GITMO
The supereme court restored my faith in the system for now "The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision Thursday asserting that foreign terror suspects held at Guantanamo have an inherent constitutional right to challenge their detention in American courts marks an historic rebalancing of powers between the executive, Congress and the judiciary — one that many critics believe is a long overdue correction after years of executive overreach by the Bush administration." - Time Magazine Online, June 12
Not that I have an opinion about the guilt or innocence of these individuals. Just that our country is founded on certain inalienable rights (ring a constitutional bell?) and that nobody we deal with as a country, should be denied the right to a trial. Yes, the system can be manipulated. We need to be diligent. But we also need to understand the Paradox that Bush subscribes to - that liberty can be had by denying other liberty - is unconstitutional and the start down the slippery slope of oppression for "protection of the people". So it goes in dictatorships, but not in the country of Jefferson, my friends.
Go home Mr. Bush and take your policy with you.
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