The Bush administration should not be allowed to get away with their blatant violation of Jose Padilla's constitutional rights. After holding Padilla without charge and without an attorney for 3 1/2 years they now want to disregard those charges and start new criminal procedures and thereby avoid a Supreme Court ruling. Bullshit!
The
6th Amendment is very clear on the rights an American citizen has when the government accuses you of a crime.
If Jose Padilla committed a crime he should have received counsel immediately, had the right to a speedy trial and been able to face his accusers. He's been denied all of those.
Is Jose Padilla guilty of conspiring with al Qaeda to
blow up apartment buildings in Chicago? Or was he just a street thug who got in too deep? No one knows, but Jose Padilla, as an American citizen, has been denied his constitutional rights and the Supreme Court needs to acknowledge the Bush administration's flagrant violation of those rights.
The 6th Amendment; the law of this land since 1791, far outweighs some stupid cowboy and his band of unconstitutional, America-hating, right-wing nuts who think they can do things their way by scaring the public into giving up their rights!
The Supreme Court needs to rule on this. We'll see how those crotchety old bastards rule on something so obviously unconstitutional...It will end up exposing Scalia, Thomas and maybe the new guy, Roberts, for what they really are.
But this case demands a Supreme Court ruling and Alberto Gonzales and Bush's Justice Department need to be taken to the woodshed!
Prosecutors call Padilla's 'combatant' complaint not relevant now
Specter launches probe of handling of case
"The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday that terror suspect Jose Padilla's complaints about being held indefinitely as a "enemy combatant" are irrelevant now that criminal charges have been filed in Florida.
And, prosecutors said, it doesn't matter if the charges against Padilla don't include a previously alleged "dirty bomb" plot.
Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter has announced that he is launching a formal probe of the Justice Department's handling of the Padilla case and may hold a public hearing.
Specter said Thursday: "I think there's a real question raised when you hold a citizen for three and a half years on a charge that he's going to explode a dirty bomb and then, when the Supreme Court is considering taking jurisdiction of the case, to withdraw. That troubles me."
The Bush administration should not be allowed to get away with their blatant violation of Jose Padilla's constitutional rights. After holding Padilla without charge and without an attorney for 3 1/2 years they now want to disregard those charges and start new criminal procedures and thereby avoid a Supreme Court ruling. Bullshit!
The 6th Amendment is very clear on the rights an American citizen has when the government accuses you of a crime.
If Jose Padilla committed a crime he should have received counsel immediately, had the right to a speedy trial and been able to face his accusers. He's been denied all of those.
Is Jose Padilla guilty of conspiring with al Qaeda to blow up apartment buildings in Chicago? Or was he just a street thug who got in too deep? No one knows, but Jose Padilla, as an American citizen, has been denied his constitutional rights and the Supreme Court needs to acknowledge the Bush administration's flagrant violation of those rights.
The 6th Amendment; the law of this land since 1791, far outweighs some stupid cowboy and his band of unconstitutional, America-hating, right-wing nuts who think they can do things their way by scaring the public into giving up their rights!
The Supreme Court needs to rule on this. We'll see how those crotchety old bastards rule on something so obviously unconstitutional...It will end up exposing Scalia, Thomas and maybe the new guy, Roberts, for what they really are.
But this case demands a Supreme Court ruling and Alberto Gonzales and Bush's Justice Department need to be taken to the woodshed!
