When Gitmo was first set up, I thought, “Good.\u00a0 Lock ’em all up.”<\/p>\n
When people cried that the detainees’ rights were being violated, I joined the chorus of, “They’re combatants, they have no rights!”<\/p>\n
In the back of my head was a voice crying, “We’re Americans dammit, we’re better than this.”<\/p>\n
Today the “liberal” block of the Supreme Court listened to their voices much better than I ever did and decided that those folks have every right to have the government either show the evidence against them or set them free.<\/p>\n
We’re Americans dammit, we’re better than we’ve shown to be over the past few years.\u00a0 Thanks to the Supreme Court, we’re acting like it again.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s going to prove to be a mistake when it comes to our security.\u00a0 But we all know what Ben Franklin said about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Gitmo was first set up, I thought, “Good.\u00a0 Lock ’em all up.” When people cried that the detainees’ rights were being violated, I joined the chorus of, “They’re combatants, they have no rights!” In the back of my head was a voice crying, “We’re Americans dammit, we’re better than this.” Today the “liberal” block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gwot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}