. . . the day the Constitution died . . .

I am appalled at Thursday's decision, handed down by the US Supreme Court.

Never, in my wildest imagination, would I ever have even guessed that even our most liberal Justices could rule the way they did about the circumstances and RIGHTS of battlefield "detainees" held in an isolated military compound at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.

Voting for today's ruling were the liberal Justices: Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Dissenting were the more conservative four: Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

You can be assured that if elected, Senator Barak Obama will appoint even more liberal justices (if they can be found) than Kennedy, Stevens, Breyer, Souter, and Ginsburg.

However, a President John McCain has already promised more like Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia.

Spread the word among your friends and acquaintances.

In effect, this ruling gives men captured on the battlefield, trying desperately to kill our military men and women in any horrible way they can devise . . . not only our enemies, but not citizens of this country . . . the same rights granted only to citizens of the USA by our Constitution and laws.

You can read the full text here: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=06-1195

Writing the dissenting point of view, in part, Justice Scalia said:

"America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60-61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.

"The game of bait-and-switch that today's opinion plays upon the Nation's Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."

Justice Scalia concluded with the ominous warning . . . " The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today. I dissent."

With great sadness . . . I agree! :(