A Question
Did John McCain strenuously object when Scott Roeder was read his Miranda rights? If not, I wonder what criteria McCain is using to determine which American terrorists are entitled to their constitutional rights and which aren’t…
…I see Peter King has joined the chorus in favor of slectively shredding the Bill of Rights. In fairness, how can one disagree with the thoughts of someone who has so consistently opposed terrorism?
Real Americans are never terrorists, so it doesn’t count.
He’s kinda brown and has a Muslim-sounding name. Let’s lynch him.
Remind me what separates the GOP and the KKK again?
Such thinking is hardly solely the realm of the GOP these days.
Obama is apparently dying to win the “I hate muslims” pageant lately.
[...] Scott Lemieux: “Did John McCain strenuously object when Scott Roeder was read his Miranda rights? If not, I wonder what criteria McCain is using to determine which American terrorists are entitled to their constitutional rights and which aren’t…” [...]
That’s easy. Conservative white guys get Mirandized. Everybody else gets lynched.
I don’t know what the legal term would be; what’s Latin for “talking out of your ass”?
Well, “nugor” means “to jest, trifle, play the fool, talk nonsense”; there are many other choices for similar sentiments. Plautus apparently coined “Nugipalamloquides” for a public speaker of nonsense, which would be awesome to use, but your local Latin club might not consider it completely kosher.
Analiloquy?
I don’t remember him freaking about about Tim McVeigh’s trial either.
[...] Meanwhile, Scott Lemieux asks what might appear to be a nettlesome question: [...]
[...] Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money asks this: “Did John McCain strenuously object when Scott Roeder was read his Miranda rights? If not, I wonder what criteria McCain is using to determine which American terrorists are entitled to their constitutional rights and which aren’t?” [...]
Not to mention Eric Rudolph.
Where’s the outrage that not only were they given full due process and constitutional protections (as they deserved) but now the Hutaree Militia is likely to be out on bail awaiting trial?
http://www.freep.com/article/20100505/NEWS05/5050457/Feds-await-their-marching-orders-on-Hutaree-militia-appeal
[...] of honesty. But it’s absolutely clear why they don’t want to read it that way; just as (via Lemieux and Coates) it’s absolutely clear why the Bill of Rights stops applying the moment the accused [...]
But if Shahzad wasn’t Mirandized, his testimony can’t be used, right? I mean, right? Doesn’t McCain want him to be convicted? It’s too bad people get so angry when you call them stupid, because this whole no-Miranda-confession platform is STOOOOOPID.