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The number one terrorist enabler in the US today is Obama's AG, Eric Holder.

fortyandgo

Burlington, VT Free Press

[Read his resume and you'd never expect anything less. -ED]

...How do you know that all of the people in Gitmo are terrorists? Do you think that just because someone is charged, that they are guilty? One of the basic tenets of the constitution that you quote, and obviously support, is that people are innocent until proven guilty.

Charge them, resolve whether they are guilty or not, and then punish them accordingly or release them. Why do you oppose that? 

Craig51

Des Moines, IA Register

[Frankly, Craig I don't know for a fact that every Gitmo detainee is a terrorist and I don't recall ever saying or writing otherwise. What I did say is that every terrorist is hell-bent on death and destruction for America and Americans. And I don't oppose culling out the non-terrorists (if in fact, there are any). What I do oppose is the PC/JC (judicially correct) treatment of ALL of them as if they have the same rights as US citizens. And I also oppose anyone who believes that the War on Terror is a made-up fear-mongering term. -ED]

People are innocent until proven guilty. Not exactly.  American citizens are innocent until proven guilty.  Why allow the same rights to those that prefer we're not alive?  That's just what the enemy likes to hear, though!

Anonymous

Another home run Ed. Are all detainees bad guys? A small number may not be. The fact that several who have been released show up in the same "hood" doing their thing shows they never should have been let go. While Gitmo is on the libs' radar, the 600 or so detained at Bagram never make it on the news. I agree with a comment as to eric holder. He is an enabler and an enemy of civil rights in the USA.

deserttrek

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

We had a 'no prisoner(s)' policy in the jungle as did my uncle in the Korean War and my father in WW II. Unfortunately for us this is a new, touchy-feely, paradigm where political correctness is a matter of making the grade or getting the boot. We are in trouble as a nation and if you take that stand, you are labeled by the politically correct, pablum spewing idiots that have no clue because getting the 'boot' hurts...

boned

Great Falls, MT Tribune

Somehow, the civility of the "Geneva Conventions" loses credibility when one comes to the realization that the islamic terrorist lunatics care not in the least about the humanity of anyone who they consider an "infidel". Pardon me if I care not in the least about the "rights" of those loonies.

texascorvette

Des Moines, IA Register

I'm wondering if the soon-to-be released terrorist Sarah Jane Olson will be invited to be on Obama's cabinet, something for which she seems qualified.  Would rather have her in Washington than back in MN.

LavenderAngel

St. Cloud, MN Times

[No cabinet post but she has been enlisted to host coming-out parties for aspiring community organizers. -ED]

I have read one or two of your blogs and have come to the conclusion that you sound like a nagging wife. A lot of complaints about a lot of subjects but not one good word or helpful solution. Your obvious distaste for the so-called Geneva Conventions has colored your entire blog. I would like to believe that the GC was written and followed so that our troops would be treated in a humanely way if captured. Of course, the way we war has changed, but not the honor for which we fight.

RDV 

Montana

[I've got a "nagging wife" too.  Her name is Nancy.  She makes me very angry and, unfortunately, "you-know-what" flows downstream. -ED]

I am so tired of hearing about the Geneva Convention when it comes to these terrorists. It seems like the US is the only team playing by the rules. These guys can behead, drag down the street, and set people on fire. But we can't detain one without the world crying. I for one am fed up with it.

vander1020

Mansfield, OH News Journal

The idea that terrorism has the power to destroy us may be true. Not, however, in the way you mean it. It may destroy us by succeeding the way they want it to, and that is by creating fear. You want to believe that terrorism is our biggest problem? Go ahead.  To think that these slimeballs who have no power, no country, and not much philosophy other than intimidation, have the power to bring down our society is utter nonsense.  I don't know who in the government you're referring to when you're implying that the detainees at Gitmo should be treated like the average U.S. citizen. Quite obviously, they are different. But should the trials be fair? You bet. Possibly because they would treat us differently if the situations were reversed, you might not agree. When we've given up the rule of law, they've won.

ghia65
Normal, IL

61 and counting former club Gitmo detainees returned to Al-Qaeda service. Well banzai and get ready to die.

BilBala2

Lansing, MI State Journal

A terrorist is an angry person who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force...

Anonymous

[What is your definition of a nation that has a bomb and an air force but is prepared to allow terrorists judicial rights equal to those of its citizens? And what about those 19 angry men who didn't have a bomb but improvised an air force?  I'm grateful to the previous administration that #20 (and higher numbers) are now part of the Gitmo collection.  -ED]

The old Christian understanding of man, was that he was fallen and was not basically good. Since we have lost that worldview, we have come to believe that men are basically good and given a chance would live in peace with each other. History shows different. To make laws that suppress the ability of 'good' men, and by that I mean those willing to abide by law to curb their rebellious natures and curb others so to keep some sort of civility, is suicide. War is not a preference, but a necessity at times against those that would take away your freedoms. Self defense is the only justifiable reason for war. That defense takes on some means that are not pleasant.

I would highly suggest that those that oppose war and the means of war read Augustine's theory on war--the just war theory. I believe that it is much closer to reality than what the blind adherents of the Geneva Convention (humanistic in origin I might add) believe. Their thought comes out of the Enlightenment and Darwinian philosophy that man is getting better morally. I disagree. We are the same there as we were 6000 years ago.

derf1

Mansfield, OH News Journal

Excellent Article!  Here is one person that agrees with what you said and I'm sure there are millions of other people agree with you. Keep up the good work. it was great to read your article!

Anonymous

[Thanks for reading and commenting.  I hope you'll offer a link to your friends and will be a regular visitor.  -ED]