A Win with Guantanamo Bay

The District of Columbia Circuit Appeals Court ruled 2-1 that civilian courts could no longer rule of whether or not the military is legally holding foreign suspects. This is a huge victory for the current administration and their Military Commissions Act, which was pushed through last year to set up a system to prosecute terror suspects. Keeping detainees out of the US Court system was a major aspect of the act.

Although this will more than likely be appealed to the Supreme Court, it should stand up to their votes as well. It was the Supreme Court that struck down the last plan for prosecuting terror suspects, prompting the creation of the Military Commissions Act.

What needs to be realized here is that those who are detained for terrorist acts against any facet of society is not entitled to the same rights US citizens are granted under the constitution. Once we get into the international arena, the responsibility of dealing with terrorists falls onto the military.

I'm sorry, but I am not going to grant the same rights we are promised as US citizens to the hijackers of 9/11 and their counterparts.