Last night, Mark Levin compared the views of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia about the Constitutional rights of detainees and harsh interrogations to those of Senator John McCain:
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Personally I feel that the 1950 Supreme Court ruling was generically wrong but we did not have Scalia types on the bench then, we had New Deal Justices. That ruling should have excluded non-citizens. Nevertheless we still have an unambiguous ruling that states that Constitutional rights do not apply on foreign territories. In fact the very people wishing otherwise are the same people who are generally against using our influence anywhere in the World, other than the US. Now they want us to impose our laws Worldwide?
If McCain wishes to disparage his own War on Terror persona by allowing Constitutional rights to foreign-born terrorists, outside of this US, he can do that. It will be to the detriment of the citizenry he is sworn to protect… not last, not second but first. If we could time travel back to 9/10/2001, and knew that we had in captivity a person that had knowledge that could prevent the events of the following day, and we did not gather that info, by any means, heads would roll. Any interrogations techniques would be justifiable to prevent the carnage that occurred. Now he wants habeas corpus and due process rights overseen by the ACLU and the American Trial Attorneys and paid for by the American taxpayer while simultaneously providing the enemy the info about our techniques and the people involved. Once again the people supporting this concept are liberal leftists that are for individual World rights, in this particular instance, but are for group rights when it comes to American profit sharing, redistribution, entitlements and property ownership and usage.
Why do we need the Supreme Court to screw things up when McCain can fast tract the same result? We worry about courts usurping Executive power; here we have the potential Executive just handing it over. Rather mind-boggling.
How much of a sissy society have we become when a slap in the face to someone who wants to kill you is considered torture? I am afraid we are never going to win this war if we play by these rules and the sad thing is, the enemy knows it.
It’s like music to my ears to hear a conservative and originalist justice like Justice Scalia speak with such clarity and frankness the way he does. I love the way he uses words like “absurd” and “ridiculous” when responding to his leftist critics. It’s just refreshing to hear common sense being expressed every once in a while.
Now of course I’m not for cloning, but if I were, I’d love to clone a few thousand Scalias and Levins.