Right you are Keith
as it would seem that this Jose Padilla is a habitual criminal from the time when Hector was a pup including one instance of murder during an armed robbery when he was 15. ?Swell kid? I?d say and now we see his Attorney is driving like hell to get Jose sprung loose from the Navy brig. Brig guards aren?t exactly Disneyland-theme park tour conductors and not particularly known for having Mr. Rogers?s neighborhood manners. But on the other hand, I can?t think of a better place for the Jos??s and other various and assorted al Qaeda operatives, except maybe having their ashes in a Chinese takeout carton. There should be a bunch of legal contests coming up and well see if American lives are more important than legal mind twisters and/or convolutions of legal precedent/statutes.
The ?shoe bomber? won a round yesterday. A Judge decided that an airliner is not a ?vehicle? so one charge was thrown out, eight to go. In the paradox of it all, we seem to be driven to protect the Constitution and yet federal Judges are making a mockery of it all. That L.A. Federal Circuit Judge more or less declared that Federal Grand Jury testimony was irrelevant and cut one of al Qaeda?s best loose. Ouch, that hurts and shows these Judges just make things up as they go and seem accountable to no one, not even the law its self.
Fair seas, Bill
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