It was only fair.

I was watching one of those political pundit shows over the weekend and the recent Supreme Court ruling concerning that offshore prison/torture vehicle came up. Suprising to me, half the talking heads thought it was an awful 5-4 decision. I'm not sure how essentially half the people and all these courts could see this as a bad decision.

I understand that these are the the worst of the worst. These people allegedly spent their every breathing moment working towards the destruction of the American way of life. Lock em up and throw away the key.

I also understand that these guys weren't Americans entitled to protection of the U.S. Constitution. Although they had been removed from their home countries and deposited in a legal no man's land thousands of miles away, they aren't really entitlted to a jury of a trial of their peers.

But the idea behind this is still innocent until proven guilty. or at least a fair chance to defend oneself from charges. Just because they are allegedly enemy combatants does not mean anything goes. Despite every fabricate argument to the contrary, the Geneva Convention does apply. And something just seems downright unAmerican about people being locked up by our government for 6 years without any chance to even know the charges against them. How long can we keep them? According to Bush, as long as this war goes on, or something close to forever.

I think the Supreme Court tried to give the executive branch as much leeway as they could. For six years, Junior has kept up this funny business of torturing and setting up stacked predetermined proceedings that gave new bounce to the term kangaroo court. But it was dragging on. And it was time to recognize that something needed to be done.

If this was a bad decision, the court was pushed to it. They were forced to give some semblance of an ability to contest incarceration, because no one else was going to do it. One of those things, where only time will tell.