Posted by
KsReaganite on Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:58:50 PM
This is one of those post which will infuriate many of my conservative friends; so did my endorsement of Rob Wasinger for Kansas's First District Congressional seat. All I can say is to quote Shakespeare as the Bard describes the nature of a man thus, 'Be to thyself true, and surely it follows..'.
"My view," he added, "is that the issue of whether someone is put into the American judicial system or into the military commissions is a judgment best made by the chief law enforcement officer of the United States."
Those are the words of my fellow Kansan, fellow Republican, and a decorated hero of America's intelligence community and her Air Force, Dr. Robert Gates. They are good enough for me because they count far more than the somewhat imprudent chatter of those who have never served a day in harm's way but yet consider themselves experts on national security and intelligence.
Our Constitution is for all times and all places, not just the convenient ones. That, my friends, is what makes America the exceptional phenomena in human history that Ronald Reagan spoke about. And the Constitution is crystal clear: those accused of crimes committed on our soil are to be tried on our soil, under our organic law, and in front of the victims of the said crime.
This is America...not some tinpot banana republic.