Court rules again against Bush's detention of U.S. resident

First a summary of the story: AP Writer Zinie Sampson writes, "The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it believes is an al-Qaeda sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. The court said sanctioning the indefinite detention of civilians would have 'disastrous consequences for the constitution — and the country.'

In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn't strip Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident, of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court.

It ruled the government must allow al-Marri to be released from military detention.

Al-Marri has been held in solitary confinement in the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., since June 2003. The Qatar native has been detained since his December 2001 arrest at his home in Peoria, Ill., where he moved with his wife and five children a day before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to study for a master's degree.

'To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them 'enemy combatants,' would have disastrous consequences for the constitution — and the country,' the court panel said."

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Once again the Court has ruled based upon the Constitution as this President and his minions, defy the Constitution and the Rule of Law. This is from the same President who put his hand on their Bible and swore to God and us. In a sense he has profaned his God and us all by using his name in vain. Go back and read your Bible. What you have done is hypocritical. My guess is you will try to appeal this decision too to the Supreme Court and delay the inevitable, the verdict that you were wrong again. Shame, shame, shame on you, sir.

Now let's make this a fine day by having the Senate pass a vote of no-confidence of former General Counsel and current Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. Any Senator that doesn't vote in favor of this vote of no-confidence should be replaced, as they are endorsing un-Constitutional actions by this Administration.