Camp Justice

The Divided States of America plays out it’s daily drama.  As we the people prepare for an election of mounting importance for both us and the rest of the world, we’re reminded in an important way just how divided we really are.

I’m kind of a middle of the road guy when it comes to general politics, but some things I take a hard line with.  The rule of law has to be applied evenly and without prejudice or it’s worse than no law at all.

A 5–4 vote in the US Supreme court is as close as things can get, that’s why there is an uneven number of judges and it’s also why there is so much heat when it comes to appointing a new judge, we’re stuck with these people till they die or retire.

Today the Supreme Court of this great nation handed down a 5–4 decision that the foreign prisoners, some of whom have been detained for 6 years at GITMO have the right to challenge there detention in federal court.

For 6 years some of these people have been held without due process.

The Bush administration has called them prisoners of war and thus exempt from the laws of our land.  Even though divided the supreme court has handed down yet another blow.

Are we at war?  I know a few things about what we are doing.  I have some friends in the Navy.  I know we have put our children in harms way to fight for justice?  How can we fight for justice when we refuse to give justice to others?

Like it or not half the people in this country thing they are entitled to everything and have no remorse killing and destroying to take what they think god or some other divine law told them was for them.

There is no Justice, just us.