As unpalatable as it is to release people we assume are terrorists, there is no way they can be tried legally in US courts. Their detention violates almost every element of due process. They have been held without being charged, they have been denied access to counsel, they have been tortured, and their movement to US custody did not comport with what constitutes lawful extradition. And, when they have been allowed access to those kangaroo courts, they have been denied the right to present evidence, cross examine witnesses, and discovery. There is no way these people can be legally put on trial. They must be released and allowed access to our civil courts to pursue compensation for their ordeals.

The Constitution established bright lines that separated what was acceptable behavior on the part of the government with respect to the accused. The conduct authorized and ordered by the Bush administration have permanently tainted any proceedings against these prisoners. Obama has put forth the idea that we create a special parallel legal system to try these people. An ex-post facto court system that permits introduction of illegally obtained admissions (a confession is a lawful and legally admissible proclamation of guilt) is just as bad as what we have now and places Obama in the same category as Bush. Just as Bush was wrong to take his crayon to the rule of law, Obama cannot just create this new legal system nor can he make legal that which was previously illegal.

Obama has already said that he is not going to investigate the Bush Administration. He has said he "does not want to look back" but "look at what we can do better going forward." The Republicans and the MSM are already cheering him for refusing to bend to the will of the "radical left" who want him to instigated investigation and prosecution of Bush and his minions because all they want is vengeance. They hail his pragmatism and are already advancing the lie that if Obama seeks to prosecute law breakers, he will not be able to get things done on the economy, health care, the environment, and reform of entitlement programs. That is going to be the new lie the media sell the masses: wanting to hold people accountable before the law is just petty revenge taking and it will cause the economic crisis to continue. I often wonder if it is Bin Laden or Bush and his MSM cronies who hate us for our freedoms.

I remember when the right was all about law and order. They lobbied for and got mandatory minimums, the three strikes laws, and draconian drug laws. Rudy Giuliani, the 9/11 pornographer/darling of the right, supposedly cleaned up New York City by implementing the "broken windows" policy: law enforcement can reduce major crimes by relentlessly prosecuting the small crimes like jaywalking and littering. Funny, now they want us to let major crimes with international implications go. I bet there are thousands of black men, who are subject to harsher sentencing, who would love it if judges could just avoid looking into the past when taking their previous convictions into account as aggravating factors in their sentencing. Instead of going to prison for 25 to life for having a gram of crack in addition to two previous felony convictions, they might get off serving six months if the government chose to not look back.

Republicans are not the only culprits here. I am certain that if the facts surrounding illegal detention and torture are made public, more than a few names of the Democratic leadership would be on the approving documents and briefings. I see Pelosi and Reid now covering their asses by saying they support President Obama's desire to move on and fix our nation's current crises.

Obama said yesterday that "America is ready to lead again." Leaving aside the arrogance that America should lead or that anyone wants us to, how can America be ready to lead when it is unwilling to right the wrongs of the last eight years and send a signal that we tolerate flagrant law breaking? We push for the prosecution of Milosevic, Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, and other lawless rulers, yet our own are untouchable. it'll never do.

I am an ignorant racist but you called me a "superior dark skinned nigger." First of all, I never made any allusion to my skin color. Again, we do NOT all look the same. How many times to I have to say it before you get it? I happen to not be dark skinned, in case you were wondering, and I do not see myself as being superior to anyone else. Sally Hemmings' kids were the spawn of Jefferson, they were biracial children of a president, yet they were no less the children of a slave. It has nothing to do with skin color. You and Rahm Emmanuel can have your baseball analogy. On who is a racist, though, I say this: knight to queen, check, and check mate.

By the way, only one of the Creole mayors of New Orleans went to St. Augustine's and that was Steve Barthelemy. Not all creoles went to the same school, just as they do not all look the same. Dutch Morial went to McDonough #35 High School, Marc Morial went to Jesuit, Nagin went to O. Perry. You should at least try to get that fact right before you delve into the intangibles that are their feelings and motivations.

Your blind need to hurl racists insults made you misread my entire post. I am not going to waste my time discussing race with a racist. It would be as pointless trying to teach Bush about differential equations. Good luck with calling black people nigger, though. Sooner or later, it will get you knocked out. Maybe it has already happened and you are just bitter.