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2008-10-09 Home Front: WoT

Court blocks judge's order to free Chinese Muslims

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Posted by Steve White 2008-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 We got them in Afghanistan, therefore we should send them back to Afghanistan, in the little finger of land that connects it to China. If they want to walk back to China, fine. Otherwise, they stay in the little finger of land.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-09 00:26|| 2008-10-09 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank god someone in the judiciary still has a brain!

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-10-09 02:01|| 2008-10-09 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 To quote the injunction:
"What're you, fuckin' nuts?"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-10-09 02:06|| 2008-10-09 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems to me the legal precedent here is closing time at the local bar: We don't care where you go, but you can't stay here

Posted by SteveS 2008-10-09 03:44|| 2008-10-09 03:44|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Glatch Bluetooth1822 2008-10-09 06:29|| 2008-10-09 06:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ..preferably by the legal mechanism for doing so.

Constitutionally, Congress can impeach them for 'bad behavior'. Now the judiciary will claim authority define what is 'bad behavior'. However, it's within Congress' venue to do that. If Congress acts upon the definition with the same restraint, i.e. living Constitution, it can interpret whatever it feels it takes to get enough votes. The only question is 'will'. Congress is basically a coward preferring to play at power but never really wanting what it is granted in the Constitution. It's safer for congresscritters to point the finger at the judiciary and say 'they made me do it' than it is to hold the judiciary accountable for stupid judge tricks and the ever increasing assumption of unaccountable power.

Congress is weak by nature, not by law. If anyone really reads the Constitution, the legislative branch with the power of the purse and impeachment can make itself the single most powerful branch of government. However, the nature of human behavior and self interests override those advantages.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-09 08:32|| 2008-10-09 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Clinton appointee. Nuff said?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 09:33|| 2008-10-09 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 P2K:

"However, the nature of human behavior and self interests override those advantages. "

And that's the way the founders wanted it. They were very smart and well understood the nature of the beast.

Posted by AlanC 2008-10-09 09:57|| 2008-10-09 09:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Agreed.

They wrote a document not set upon establishing a utopia or perfect/perfected society, but one what acknowledged the imperfections of man. They accepted certain imperfections and ineffectiveness as protection against tyranny. That's why American Democracy and European Socialism are fundamentally incompatible.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-09 10:02|| 2008-10-09 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Good move. Now how do we get this ass Urbina removed? He is as incompetent as Gonzalez. Gone is the only cure for him.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-10-09 11:04|| 2008-10-09 11:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Send 'em to Taiwan, it's not as if the Taiwanese and Chinese don't like each other already.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-09 14:07|| 2008-10-09 14:07|| Front Page Top

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