with this ruling. This ruling along with restrtictions regarding FISA treat terrorists as criminals. They aren't. They are enemy combatants during war. They are NOT committing crimes. They are committing acts of war. Many times they haven't even committed one yet and are still in planning stages. To give them rights afforded criminals is to afford them rights they never were meant to have. Here is how I wrote about it...

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/06/detainees-to-get-habeus-rights.html

that this decision affords enemies in war rights meant for criminals. Terrorists are not criminals. They are enemy combatants during war. we have never afforded our enemies the rights of criminals during war time. This is what we are doing now. There is a totally different standard of rights given to someone planning to carry out an act of war from someone that has committed a crime, and in my opinion, the SC sees no difference. here is how I wrote about it...

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/06/detainees-to-get-habeus-rights.html

With all due respect, what reforms has Obama created? McCain has been a leader in reform in the Senate for years. From CFR top immigration to judges, whenever anything gets done in the Senate it is McCain that is in the middle of it. It is Mccain that is always in the middle of actual reform, while Obama just talks about it.

Frankly, though, it is the issue of patriotism where there is the starkest difference.

Calhoun,

Here are the two pieces. You can judge for yourself.

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamamccainrhetoric-vs-reality.html

and

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-mccain-wright-and-my-favorite.html

whether or not waterboarding and other methods are torture is open for debate, however the Bush admin never denied using them. The admin wouldn't confirm them because that would give the enemy knowledge they shouldn't have. Furthermore, these techniques work. KSM and Zubaydah were each broken down by waterboarding. They were two of three that had waterboarding used on them. Folks like you live in a theoretical world. You think it is more important to protect the theoretical civil rights of terrorists than to protect Americans.

They fight for no country, wear no uniform, and they plan and carry out illegal ACTS OF WAR. Yet, you want to give them protections afforded soldiers fighting for a country in uniform, attacking other soldiers. That's nonsense. This is one of many misnomers that liberals have about GWOT techniques. I listed them here...

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/06/liberal-misconceptions-lies-and.html

whenever someone sounds the alarm bell of global warming being on the verge of melting our planet away from existence, they always follow that scary proposition by proposing a series of measures that put our country on the path toward Socialism. Forcing change through centralized government regulation and power is just the price we will have to pay to save the planet. That's what this is all about isn't it. This has a lot less to do with global warming than with the structure of American society.

It isn't so much the spector of global warming that you are afraid of, but rather the capitalistic system that has made our country survive. That's why anyone that resists the religion known as global warming is anti scientist and they are playing the survival of the planet. Dare anyone not believe in global warming and furthermore believe that we should use market forces to combat environmental issues, then they also wouldn't change our society into a Socialistic one.

So, this is what is really going on with global warming. It isn't about our planet but about American society. You don't like free markets and capitalism and so to change that you sound the alarm bells of global warming, and then turn around and propose new regulations, controls, and mandates. How convenient. I wrote about folks like you here...

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/04/moving-beyond-global-warming-debate.html

Mr. Greenwald choose to apply criminal law to matters of military. You cannot apply criminal law to enemy combatants. You cannot fight a war while asking for a judge's permission. That is just silly. We tried fighting the terrorists using criminal procedures in the '90's and that wound up causing 9/11, and now we are treating this as a matter of war. Warrants are only necessary during criminal investigations not matters of war. Here is how I viewed it...

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/06/liberal-misconceptions-lies-and.html

Fox News won't release the full video because it is gratuitous and adds nothing to the story and only makes Jackson look bad needlessly.

Of course, what I see is an article that focuses on trivial matters of the media. What is not surprising is that Salon is totally oblivious to major corruption going on in the media right now.

This past Friday, the Senate passed a $300 billion mortgage bailout. No one seems to notice that this bill is the final step of a complicated quid pro quo between BofA, Countrywide and Chris Dodd. Chris Dodd is paying both back for hundreds of thousands of campaign contributions and some good loans. The two banks get to have billions of dollars of bad loans get taken off their books and thus become owned by the tax payers. No one seems to be reporting on that though. Let's stay on the important things like crude remarks by Bernie Mac. here is my story on the Dodd corruption...

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/07/corrupt-doddfrank-passes-senatethe.html