Judicial Activism
Anyone listening to yesterdays news, (July 28th,2005) better be hopping mad. Amazing that someone on the bench would have such a disregaurd for the safety of the citizens of this country. A total lack of respect for the system he is supposedly upholding. This one judge I refere to needs to be REMOVED IMMEDIATELY from the bench and disgraced.
Hugh Hewitt sums up the actions of this bone head:
Whatever the message the judge hoped to send, the one he in fact did send was to Islamicists all around the globe: Come to America. Try and kill us. Either you succeed and get to your version of heaven, or you'll get a second chance 22 years later after spending a couple of decades setting up networks that can help you with round 2.
The arrogance of this renegade judge's lecture is simply beyond belief. Congress should summon the judge to testify as to his inane remarks, but precede and follow his appearnce with panels comprised of vitims of terror and the families of military killed in the war.
I am ashamed to say Judge Coughenour is a Reagan appointee.
Captian Ed's blog continues:
I will point out something that Judge Coughenour seems to have forgotten in his zeal to hold himself up as a Constitutional protector, as opposed to the rest of us police-state brownshirts. We captured this terrorist on American soil, mostly by luck and the sharp eye of airport security. Under most circumstances, that does mean that the civilian courts would come into play. If we had traced the terrorist using highly-sensitive intelligence capabilities, however, we would have to have exposed them in Judge Coughenour's court, making them unusable after a single prosecution.
Next, a point which Coughenour elides, the detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere were captured outside the United States, as part of our military operations. Those people not only do not qualify as civilian prisoners, they don't qualify as POWs. Even if they qualified for the latter, the Geneva Conventions do not allow us to try them in civilian courts.
It's all well and good to sit on one's high horse (or bench, in this case) and proclaim one's devotion to the Constitution. It's quite another to understand the proper application of law in wartime and the nature of the enemies arrayed against us. It comes as no surprise that Judge Coughenour displays his expertise at the first and his absolute incompetence at the second, especially given the laughably light sentence he handed to a man who planned on blowing up hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans to celebrate his religion and the new century.
The political statement made by this activist poseing as a judge is amazing. It shows how out of touch witrh the law and reality the left has gotten. Not even looking at the differances in circumstance in which this bomber was caught. He has the balls to compare him to those apprehended on a battlefield to someone caught in a civil arena.
i DO NOT KNOW HOW ELSE TO PUT THIS OTHER THAN THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE REMOVED, DEFRAUCKED AND DISGRACED IN HIS ASSINE APPLICATION OF THE LAW.
Hugh Hewitt sums up the actions of this bone head:
Whatever the message the judge hoped to send, the one he in fact did send was to Islamicists all around the globe: Come to America. Try and kill us. Either you succeed and get to your version of heaven, or you'll get a second chance 22 years later after spending a couple of decades setting up networks that can help you with round 2.
The arrogance of this renegade judge's lecture is simply beyond belief. Congress should summon the judge to testify as to his inane remarks, but precede and follow his appearnce with panels comprised of vitims of terror and the families of military killed in the war.
I am ashamed to say Judge Coughenour is a Reagan appointee.
Captian Ed's blog continues:
I will point out something that Judge Coughenour seems to have forgotten in his zeal to hold himself up as a Constitutional protector, as opposed to the rest of us police-state brownshirts. We captured this terrorist on American soil, mostly by luck and the sharp eye of airport security. Under most circumstances, that does mean that the civilian courts would come into play. If we had traced the terrorist using highly-sensitive intelligence capabilities, however, we would have to have exposed them in Judge Coughenour's court, making them unusable after a single prosecution.
Next, a point which Coughenour elides, the detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere were captured outside the United States, as part of our military operations. Those people not only do not qualify as civilian prisoners, they don't qualify as POWs. Even if they qualified for the latter, the Geneva Conventions do not allow us to try them in civilian courts.
It's all well and good to sit on one's high horse (or bench, in this case) and proclaim one's devotion to the Constitution. It's quite another to understand the proper application of law in wartime and the nature of the enemies arrayed against us. It comes as no surprise that Judge Coughenour displays his expertise at the first and his absolute incompetence at the second, especially given the laughably light sentence he handed to a man who planned on blowing up hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans to celebrate his religion and the new century.
The political statement made by this activist poseing as a judge is amazing. It shows how out of touch witrh the law and reality the left has gotten. Not even looking at the differances in circumstance in which this bomber was caught. He has the balls to compare him to those apprehended on a battlefield to someone caught in a civil arena.
i DO NOT KNOW HOW ELSE TO PUT THIS OTHER THAN THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE REMOVED, DEFRAUCKED AND DISGRACED IN HIS ASSINE APPLICATION OF THE LAW.
