The SCOTUS decision yesterday was exactly that, a power grab. Ginsburg, Kennedy, Stevens, Souter and Breyer have sided with the enemy but then we all shouldn’t be too surprised by this since they’ve been grabbing power through judicial fiat for many years now.

It is quite clear that our troops no longer should take any prisoners. Can you see it now if they did take prisoners? They will need to be Mirandized. First there’s the issue of having an interpreter available and then will our troops be pulled off the battle front to testify in court? How about exposing that troop to the terrorist networks? How safe will their family be? How much classified information will be revealed to our enemies because of this ruling so their shyster lawyers can “defend” their “clients”.

Say good by to any intelligence to be gleaned from any high value prisoners. How much longer do you think those 200 or so GTMO prisoners will remain prisoners? Most will be released to go back to their killing and animalistic actions. I’d like to set them on the 5 Supremes who voted for this power grab.

From Joseph Farah:

But, come to think of it, what’s really stunning about this Supreme Court ruling is the way you can contrast it with other landmark rulings about due process for actual American citizens.

Wasn’t it this court that ruled actual American citizens had no right to keep their own property in the face of eminent domain claims by government?

Wasn’t it the Supreme Court that found, in ruling in favor of the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold legislation, that Congress actually did have the power to limit freedom of political speech by actual American citizens?

Wasn’t it the Supreme Court that ruled in 1935 that actual American citizens had no right to own gold and no right to be fairly compensated for it?

Wasn’t it the Supreme Court that has consistently ruled, often wrongly, in favor of executive branch latitude in times of national emergency and war?

What the Supreme Court has been doing more and more for more than 100 years now is to create new rights for people, citizens or not, where none were previously seen while restricting the most basic and unalienable rights as defined by our Constitution.

Likewise, the Supreme Court has bestowed upon itself new powers never envisioned for the institution in the Constitution or by its framers for the institution.

These unaccountable high priests are no longer interpreting the law – they are perverting it, subverting it, overturning it, corrupting it, debasing it. They twist the law to the point it is no longer recognizable. This is how they empower themselves and force their own ideological will on the people, whom they regard as mere subjects.

And that is why America, founded on the principle of the rule of law and the will of the people, no longer respects either.

Just so you understand what’s at stake in this ruling, know that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of Sept. 11, is one of those prisoners at Guantanamo.

I believe if the American people understood what five members of the Supreme Court did yesterday, siding with the 9/11 attackers over U.S. civilians, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Stephen Breyer would all be in danger of being lynched. Fortunately for them, the American people pay little attention to Supreme Court rulings.

Pay no attention to the man behind the black curtain.

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