This (and the Walter Reed story) should be saturating the cable and network newscasts (note to NBC...Anna Nicole and Brittany are NOT NEWS!!)...
A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the U.S. government can hold prisoners at the American military facility at Guantanamo Bay indefinately without once seeing a judge and without knowing the charges they are being held on. "Cuba - not the United States - has sovereignty over Guantanamo Bay," wrote Judge Raymond Randolph in the 2 to 1 majority ruling.
Uhhh...no, Judge. Guantanamo is actually American soil and therefore America is responsible for what happens there.
This, my friends, reeks of old-fashioned Soviet-style tactics. The appeals court judges declared war against our Constitution with this ruling. And America as we know it continues her speedy decline under George W. Bush.
Note: The second judge who ruled with Randolph to form the majority opinion is none other than David B. Sentelle, the guy who overturned the conviction of Oliver North and fired independent council Robert Fiske when Fiske couldn't find anything of legal substance to pin on President Bill Clinton. Sentelle replaced Fiske with a guy named Kenneth Starr.
No, Sentelle isn't partisan at all! He's perfectly suited to be fair and impartial.
Gimme a break!
