Plenty of time to hone soothing legal minutae once you survive.
profitsbeard on June 15, 2008 at 2:53 PM

First they put away the dealers,
keep our kids safe and off the street.
Then they put away the prostitutes,
keep married men cloistered at home.
Then they shooed away the bums,
then they beat and bashed the queers,
turned away asylum-seekers,
fed us suspicions and fears.
We didn’t raise our voice,
we didn’t make a fuss.
It’s funny there was no one left to notice
when they came for us.

War on Errorism

J_Gocht-

Ben Franklin also said:

“Let us all hang together, or we shall certainly hang separately.”

Fighting among yourselves, to your own injury, in the middle of a battle for your existence, is suicidal.

Plenty of time to hone soothing legal minutae once you survive.

Why are people forced to take their shoes off at airports, fools?

During his confirmation process he refused to condemn waterboarding and yet was able to somehow dupe both, Feinstein and Schumer into voting for him.

As a district judge he had to reinstate a suit brought against Philip Morris Companies, Inc. by disgruntled stockholders after it was learned that in his previous work as a private attorney he had represented tobacco companies in defense of smoker litigation.

The only fault he could find concerning the despicable US PATRIOT ACT was…

”…Without offering my view on any case or controversy, current or future, I think that, that awkward name may very well be the worst thing about the statute.”

AG Mukasey believes…

“…”Terror trials hurt the nation even when they lead to convictions.”

“Not because they involve detainees who have been tortured or mistreated, or secret information not available to the defense. No, this respected jurist does not care about the damage done to the rule of law or our constitutional protections. Rather, he is terrified that the trials give valuable information to the terrorists.”

The rule of law be damned; is that what you believe judge?

Mukasey allowed detention of a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil without criminal charges, in the case of Jose Padilla.

“…”the power to detain unlawful combatants” without criminal charges and that it “matters not that Padilla is a United States citizen captured on United States soil.”

Finally to heap all insult on every other injury he has supported Telecom immunity…

“…Our military, our intelligence agencies, and our law enforcement agencies are forces to be reckoned with, as they should be. But we cannot fight this fight alone. We have to be able to enlist and draw upon the lawful [surreptitious] cooperation of the private sector….”

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, circa 1759

AQCLU

normsrevenge on June 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM

Heh. That’s on par with NAALCP.

Doesn’t one have to offer proof of some type of “damage” in order to file a lawsuit?

Yep, you must have standing.

Of course, the purpose of the lawsuit is not to make whole those who have (somehow) been damaged; the goal is to get the plan in open court and reveal the details so that it can’t be used anymore.

Taxation without representation = Boston Tea Party!

Lock and Load! Pitchfork and torch time to take our country back from the Communists?

Doesn’t one have to offer proof of some type of “damage” in order to file a lawsuit?

Note to ACLU: I “think” the federal government is screwing me by taking money from me in the form of taxes. I do not believe I’m getting my money’s worth. Any chance of a lawsuit?

I fear my party has lost its cajones and hasn’t a clue where to find them.

dhunter on June 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM

Precisely my thoughts! Either that or they don’t care what conservatives think! Personally I think it’s both but the latter is their most important consideration at this point.

They just did this with the latest Senate Intelligence report that totally ignored all the democrats statements on Saddam/WMD/Al-qaeda ties before and after Bush became President so they could say Bush tricked them into voting for war.

They are doing it now with the Gitmo ruling,acting like it was Bush’s decision and his only to keep enemy combatants in
Cuba when it was Bush working with Congress (The Military Commissions Act passed the Senate on a 65-34 vote).

The MSM and the democratic parties re-writing of history
and cutting & pasting of facts to push their ideology has morphed our news agencies into one big Micheal Moore movie.

flenser on June 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM

Fat chance anything will come of it that will be more than marginal.

We can only stop the attacks if we discover them in advance.

You’re making the assumption that the democrats want to do this. The dems, en masse, tend to see the WoT as a misnomer for what amounts to our struggle against a bunch of average criminals. And you know we can’t prosecute someoneone for a crime they might commit in the future. Didn’t you see The Minority Report? The criminals need to be allowed to commit their crimes before we do anything about them.

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That’s OK,
AQCLU has all the time in the world.

Which district San Francisco? A bunch of unelected peter players in black robes decide our national security or not?

Anyone see the lastest from the SCOTUS giving enemy combants rights American citizens don’t have?

Maybe I’m being unnecesarily paranoid here but I fear my party has lost its cajones and hasn’t a clue where to find them.

Even if the telcos were hung out to dry , which would make them unlikely to support more assistance, a settlement to stop all the lawsuits or a government bailout of that would only push up the costs to either the taxpayers or customers depending on the settlement method.

Either way it is a stupid waste of resources that in the final analysis is mainly just politics that endangers our security.

We can only stop the attacks if we discover them in advance.

True, but remember to consider that terrorists have rights under the Constitution according to the Supreme Court.

The right thing to do is to ask the terrorists nicely not to attack us.
Then tap their phones.

Tell them it’s pork and they’ll pass it by Monday.

LOL! So true.