Blathering..
Another misguided Judge sputters foolishness in an effort to flaunt his ignorance and has much success. According to a report http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050728/D8BKE0R80.html U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour decided to equate fighters captured in Afghanistan and Iraq by our military units with people in custody by law enforcement personnel in the United States.
Foolishness prevailed, "We did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny the defendant the right to counsel...The message to the world from today's sentencing is that our courts have not abandoned our commitment to the ideals that set our nation apart."
Ahh how true and yet irrelevant. The courts have no authority to do anything to people captured by our military forces and held while there are still hostile zones. The idea that Judge Coughenour even needs to speak such idiocy says much about his inability to grasp the difference between what the military does and what civil police forces do.
There are many good reasons why there are not to be standing armies on US soil unless in a time of war: one usually less important one is that there is a different code of both behavior and responsibilities for the members of the military and a different legal system that operates inside of it as well.
This is another example of an activist judge who feels that being on the bench enables him to lecture and give social commentary. This behavior is more fit for Judge Judy than an active member of our district judges. Let him pat himself on the back for being so bold as to criticize something about which he seems to understand so little because at least the terrorist trash will be rotting for at least 14 years from the date of this sentencing and that I do not mind.
Foolishness prevailed, "We did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny the defendant the right to counsel...The message to the world from today's sentencing is that our courts have not abandoned our commitment to the ideals that set our nation apart."
Ahh how true and yet irrelevant. The courts have no authority to do anything to people captured by our military forces and held while there are still hostile zones. The idea that Judge Coughenour even needs to speak such idiocy says much about his inability to grasp the difference between what the military does and what civil police forces do.
There are many good reasons why there are not to be standing armies on US soil unless in a time of war: one usually less important one is that there is a different code of both behavior and responsibilities for the members of the military and a different legal system that operates inside of it as well.
This is another example of an activist judge who feels that being on the bench enables him to lecture and give social commentary. This behavior is more fit for Judge Judy than an active member of our district judges. Let him pat himself on the back for being so bold as to criticize something about which he seems to understand so little because at least the terrorist trash will be rotting for at least 14 years from the date of this sentencing and that I do not mind.
posted by Edward W. Prather at 21:42
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