Good on Sam. I still think he would’ve made a much better prez than McCain (and, it goes without saying, Obama).

If only he wasn’t one of those crazy venom-spewing anti-abortion murder-inciting Christians. /sarc

KS Rex on June 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Remember that Sen. Brownbeck voted for Kathleen Sebelius for HHS. He says he is pro life, but when it came time to stand on his principles he caved. I’m so glad he helped put a woman who believes in shoving scissors into the skulls of fetuses in charge of my health care.. Yippee.

— At what point upon arrival on US soil will the Gitmo detainees be granted their full judicial rights under the Constitution as landed immigrants?

— Once granted these full judicial rights as landed immigrants, when will these detainees be released pending trial for crimes allegedly committed outside the jurisdiction of US courts?

— Once released into the general population pending further judicial action or ICE determination will these detainees simply vanish (along with the several million other non-documented illegal aliens) and our ability to find even a single one of them be found totally impossible?

— Lastly, should the Administration hold these detainees, as landed immigrants, with full judicial rights as landed immigrants, be held in federal incarceration facilities within the United States, at what point is the Constitution and the Rule of Law to be tossed aside and all US citizens and US persons thus be in danger of being incarcerated by this Administration for alleged crimes without habeas corpus rights?

Brown v. Vasquez(1992), determined by the Supreme Court a recognition that a writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.

Unless these very simple questions are answered in full view of the public and on the record by the Administration, all the dog and pony shows by Congress and members of the Administration are not worth squat.

KS Rex on June 4, 2009 at 12:48 PM

We can only hope=)

Only if we put them in a liberal state like mine of California. Oh wait… we don’t even have a prison in Los ANGELES!!! We send OUR prisoners to other counties. Why take federal prisoners here?

moving them into general populations would violate the Geneva Conventions as well.
no problem. we’ll ask yoo and bybee for a way around it.

sesquipedalian on June 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM

We already said you libs can send them back here to RC South with us. We’ll take care of them.

The Monster on June 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM

I love local accents, anyone who thinks they are a sign of stupidity are themselves stupid.

Did he really say “heighth“?

I hate it when my fellow Kansans say things that encourage the notion that we’re stupid.

The Monster on June 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM

Since it was a conference call, the use of “heighth” may have just been the work of whoever transcribed it. Be nice to Sam; he’s going to be our next Governor. :-)

I hate it when my fellow Kansans say things that encourage the notion that we’re stupid.

Just change it’s name to Camp Mohammad and be done with all this nonsense.

moving them into general populations would violate the Geneva Conventions as well.

no problem. we’ll ask yoo and bybee for a way around it.

He’s going to name a Gitmo Czar to take care of the problem.

Nothing to see here, move along.

If only he wasn’t one of those crazy venom-spewing anti-abortion murder-inciting Christians. /sarc