Lest we forget that despite still
running for president (Something this story gets wrong. Seriously, how are they
going to spin this once we get to Tampa?), Ron Paul is still fighting for our
constitutional freedoms on Capitol Hill. Reports National
Journal:
Rep. Ron Paul has joined the
next battle over terrorism-detainee rules.
The Texan made a surprise appearance at
a House press conference in support of a bipartisan amendment to the defense
authorization bill, which hits the House floor today, that would ban indefinite
and military detention of anyone captured on U.S. soil, regardless of
citizenship.
“I do not believe a republic can exist if
you permit the military to arrest American citizens and put them in secret
prisons and be denied a trial,” Paul argued.
The amendment, cosponsored by House
Armed Services Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Rep. Justin
Amash, R-Mich., with the support of Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif.,
promises to reopen the decade-long debate over whether to prosecute terrorism
suspects in federal civil courts or within the military…
Paul, with just a bit less fire than he
showed in this year’s presidential debates, asserted that if 9/11 planner
Khalid Sheik Mohammed had been tried the same way the World Trade Center
bombing terrorists were tried in 1994, he could have received a death-penalty
conviction “10 years ago.”
“The system works; we should not be so
intimidated,” Paul said. “This cannot stand.”
The good news is a federal judge in New
York has ruled
this to be unconstitutional. The bad news is most of the people on Capitol
Hill don’t care one wit about the Constitution.
Source: Paulitical Ticker with Jack
Hunter
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