Enemy Combatants with Rights?
Today I am flying the 1st Navy Union Jack, a patriot flag I fly when Liberty is threatened. In this case, not only liberty is being threatened, so are American lives! We have given a man who tried on Christmas Day to kill 300 people in an airliner over Detroit … CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? This is INSANITY!
Terrorist!
Liberty Threatened
On December 25th, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, with PETN sewn into his underwear, boarded Delta 253 in Schipol (Amsterdam), flew to the USA and on approach to Detroit, tried with a syringe to “ignite” the chemical for the purpose of bringing down the flight killing the 300 people on board.
Council on Foreign Relations – DEFINITION … an “ENEMY COMBATANT” is an individual who, under the laws and customs of war, may be detained for the duration of an armed conflict. In the current conflict with al Qaida and the Taliban, the term includes a member, agent, or associate of al Qaida or the Taliban. In applying this definition, the United States government has acted consistently with the observation of the Supreme Court of the United States in Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1, 37-38 (1942): “Citizens who associate themselves with the military arm of the enemy government, and with its aid, guidance and direction enter this country bent on hostile acts are enemy belligerents within the meaning of the Hague Convention and the law of war.”
He is, by definition, a TERRORIST! This man is, by definition, an enemy combatant … in short, a terrorist! CNN and the rest of the “left wing media” continues to call him a “suspect” and “alleged” even though this man, had admitted being trained in Yemen under the tutelage of al Qaida, said 25 more such people were ready to act, and even though his private parts were severely burned because of his “act”. Ah, but enter the Obama lefties and our “terrorist” is turned into a “suspect” and will try him in civilian court … and now he doesn’t have to talk.
A “terrorist” has rights? But this “terrorist” is not a “terrorist” according to the Obama Administration, he’s some kind of a “suspect” with USA Constitutional Rights. (To be fair, Obama said this was the Justice Department’s decision, not his! GIVE ME A BREAK! Who appointed Holder to the Justice Department?) This TERRORIST is being given a lawyer, and full rights under the US Constitution. As a result of his “lawyering up” … he has said there are more like him, but now he has stopped divulging information that could stop future attacks.
The security system failed. We now know the security system failed miserably, even though
- Janet Napolitano on national TV said “the system worked“
- John Brennon re-stated this saying the system was working, it just didn’t work on that particular day
- The terrorist’s father turned him in to the US Embassy warning the USA that there was a problem
- John Brennan was warned earlier by Saudi Arabia about “underwear bombers”
And then they make statements like these? Do these people think we are STUPID?
The Legal System will Fail. And not only does the physical/political security system fail, now the legal system has failed. We are NOT being protected by the people who run this country … and it isn’t Bush’s fault. As Truman, a Democrat as I recall, once said, “the buck stops here.“ … and right now the “buck” stops with Obama and his sorry lot of political appointees and other misfits, gender-challenged, communists, Mao enthusiasts, and tax cheats. (Aren’t there any “normal” people left in the USA to nominate?)
John Brennan said there “is no smoking gun“ … (From CanadaFreePress)
- Smoking Gun #1— Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father contacted American authorities to warn them of his son’s radicalization.
- Smoking Gun #2—Abdulmutallab’s name was on a list of suspected al Qaeda sympathizers accessible to Homeland Security and the NTSA, although not on a no-fly list.
- Smoking Gun #3—Abdulmutallab paid in cash for his ticket.
- Smoking Gun #4—Abdulmutallab had no luggage.
- Smoking Gun #5—Abdulmutallab asked if he could board the aircraft without a passport.
- Smoking Gun #6—DHS knew about undie-bombs because Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, Security Chief of Saudi Arabia, disclosed an attempt on his life using just such a tactic last August.
- Smoking Gun #7—its one thing to have information, it’s another to use that information in a utile manner. Why is there no cross-referencing of names between the various lists available to security agencies? Or is it possible that Jamie Gorelick’s dreaded “wall” has been rebuilt under the Obama sinecure?
Breaking News 01.06.09 9:15 pm EST
- 01.08.09 CNN: Airplane Bomb Suspect Pleads Not Guilty (Suspect? Not Guilty?)
- LA Times: Reporting from Washington – U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt as he was en route to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials said in new disclosures today.
- So they “knew” a potential terrorist was on the aircraft …
- Why didn’t they notify the pilots?
- Why did they allow it to fly over densely populated areas?
- Why didn’t they have interceptors flying with it?
Obama said: “We made sure that all flights still in the air were secure and could land safely.”
And Obama calls this a “screw up”
The Bottom Line
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a terrorist and has information we need to stop the next terrorist attack. He knows who trained him, where, how. He knows the names of others in the system, he may know dates, etc. The truth is we don’t know what he knows and now we may never know in time to save American lives and prevent American deaths. Why? Because a bunch of “good feeling lefties” in this country have decided that a terrorist has “rights” under the US Constitution. (And once again, is this the “change” YOU voted for?)
This situation, as Chrarles Krauthammer said on Fox News tonight is “UNBELIEVEABLE!”
Remember Lockerbie?
To avoid another Lockerbie (which almost happened on Christmas Day), Abdulmutallab should be experiencing water boarding in Guantanamo. We should be immediately discovering the information he has … our national security depends upon acquiring this information and quickly! But instead, the terrorist has been given “rights” and has “lawyered up” and is not speaking, waiting now on a “plea bargain” (stated by John Brennon). Now we are going to give a terrorist a “deal” if he tells us information? This administration has LOST ITS MIND!
Let me be perfectly clear:
If American lives are lost and it can be proven that those lives could have been saved had we treated Abdulmutallab, as a terrorist (water boarding him for information) rather than a suspect (allowing him to lawyer-up and keep critical national security information to himself) … then those in charge of this decision … Obama, Holder, Clinton, Brennan et al … should be immediately removed from office and tried for premeditated murder of American citizens. These people, named here, are making a conscious decision not to extract information from this man and this is information that could save American lives. The decision they are making must have similarly serious consequences when they are proven wrong and misguided.
The Patriot’s Flag
It may be time to start warming up the tar and
plucking the chickens as they come home to roost!
Relevant Posts after this Post
- TimesOnline: Freed Gitmo inmates heading to Yemen to join al-Qaeda
- Associated Content: Proof Obama’ Brennan doesn’t know what he’s doing
- Annuit Coeptis: Obama’s Leftist Ideology [snip] Endangering Americans
- CanadaFreePress: The runway to Flight 253
- CanadaFreePress: No Smoking Gun (Brennan)
- SarahPalin-Facebook: Its War, not a Crime Spree (must read!)
- WallStJournal: What does the Detroit Bomber Know? 01.06.09
- RealClearPolitics: Krauthammer-The Gitmo Obsession 01.08.09 (excellent read!)
- BostonHearld: Judge tosses evidence on Gitmo Detainee 01.08.09 (here it comes!)
- StarTribune: Bachmann to Obama: Don’t let terrorists lawyer up! 01.08.02
