John McCain Is Santa Claus

He knows who has been naughty and he knows who has been nice. He just knows. There is no need for a trial for those who are not like us. There is no need for Habeas Corpus for those Un-American Non-Americans. Why should they have any rights?

Let me get this straight. We are spreading democracy in the middle east to people who don’t deserve to have the rights of Habeas Corpus? Is this what Mr. Straight Talk Bomb Bomb Bomb is trying to tell us? What kind of democracy is that?

John McCain:

The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country. Sen. Graham and Sen. Lieberman and I had worked very hard to make sure that we didn't torture any prisoners, that we didn't mistreat them, that we abided by the Geneva Conventions, which applies to all prisoners. But we also made it perfectly clear, and I won't go through all the legislation we passed, and the prohibition against torture, but we made it very clear that these are enemy combatants, these are people who are not citizens, they do not and never have been given the rights that citizens of this country have. And my friends there are some bad people down there. There are some bad people. So now what are we going to do. We are now going to have the courts flooded with so-called, quote, Habeas Corpus suits against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. And we are going to be bollixed up in a way that is terribly unfortunate, because we need to go ahead and adjudicate these cases. By the way, 30 of the people who have already been released from Guantanamo Bay have already tried to attack America again, one of them just a couple weeks ago, a suicide bomber in Iraq. Our first obligation is the safety and security of this nation, and the men and women who defend it. This decision will harm our ability to do that.

Apparently for Senator McCain there is a point at which justice simply becomes too much work to be bothered with anymore.

“… these are people who are not citizens, they do not and never have been given the rights that citizens of this country have.” The British are not citizens of the United States. Do they have the right to Habeas Corpus, Senator McCain? After all, it was their idea in the first place.

“And my friends there are some bad people down there. There are some bad people.” And some are not. That is why we have a justice system, Senator McCain, to find out whether someone is truly guilty.

What good is it to have a safe and secure nation if that nation is no longer civilized?