Boumediene v. Bush: US Supreme Court Tapes “Kick Me’ Sign on America’s Back
The Supreme Court’s Boumediene v. Bush used the U.S. Constitution to find extraordinary rights for the very same people trying to destroy that Constitution.
In doing so, the five liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court taped a “KICK ME!” signs to their own backs. But unlike other Kick Me Liberals, in the Supreme Court’s case, they’ve also taped that sign onto the backs of 300 million of their countrymen.
A few examples of Kick Me Liberals.
United States Supreme Court
Incredibly, these five Justices [the Court's liberal bloc of Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, joined by Anthony Kennedy] have now defied the considered judgment of the president and Congress for a third time, all to grant captured al Qaeda terrorists the exact same rights as American citizens to a day in civilian court.
Judicial modesty, respect for the executive and legislative branches, and pure common sense weren’t concerns here either. The Court refused to wait and see how Congress’s 2006 procedures for the review of enemy combatant cases work. Congress gave Guantanamo Bay prisoners more rights than any prisoners of war, in any war, ever. The justices violated the classic rule of self-restraint by deciding an issue not yet before them.
The author of the above piece for the The Wall Street Journal, Law Professor John Yoo, went on to say, “Because of the advancing age of several justices (Justice Stevens is 88, and several others are above 70), the next president will be in a position to appoint a new Court that can reverse the damage done to the nation’s security.”
The Supremes join other famous liberals who’ve taped a “KICK ME!” sign to their own backs–and in the case of Congress and the Supreme Court, their country’s.
Robert Fisk
After the U.S. launched its attack on Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Fisk was for a time transferred to Pakistan to provide coverage of that conflict.
While reporting from there, he was attacked and beaten by a group of Afghan refugees but was also saved from this attack by another Afghan refugee. In his graphic account of his own beating, published in The Independent of December 10, 2001, Fisk excused the attackers of responsibility (“I couldn’t blame them for what they were doing,”) and said that, in his view, their “brutality was entirely the product of others, of us — of we who had armed their struggle against the Russians and ignored their pain and laughed at their civil war and then armed and paid them again for the ‘War for Civilisation’ just a few miles away and then bombed their homes and ripped up their families and called them ‘collateral damage.’”
The most famous Kick Me Liberal in the Senate the last few years has been Harry Reid. (D-NV).
Harry Reid
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “incompetent†during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.
Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview.
This is but the latest example of how Reid, under pressure from liberal activists to do more to stop the war, is going on the attack against President Bush and his military leaders in anticipation of a September showdown to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, according to Democratic senators and aides.
We have no problem with liberals plastering their own backs with “Kick Me!” signs. It’s an amusing habit of theirs.
But, when they are in office and have the power to tape a sign on every U.S. citizen’s back, as well–without their approval–then they are not just buffoonish liberals.
They are dangerous.
by Mondoreb
Sources/images:
* The Supreme Court Goes to War
* Robert Fisk
* exceller8ion
* abc
* Red Planet Cartoons
* Reid labels military leader ‘incompetent’
