Miranda Rights Sick of Coddling Terrorists
Written by Miranda Sullivan on May 11, 2010
The public (with the aid of a few brave legislators) have unleashed an outcry in response to what has been an ongoing problem but until recently has managed to remain beneath the mass radar. That being the misuse and abuse of Miranda Rights in respect to Terrorists. Well, at least that’s the variation that Kal Penn (Obama’s new translator) has managed to get through to His Holiness. The REAL issue is foreign terrorists being tried as criminal offenders in civil court as opposed to military detainees per wartime policy. What is with the government and making the rules and then conveniently ignoring them? This time there’s nothing convenient about their blatant (and very public) ignorance. Unless there is, in which case we have a bigger problem.
But we’ll leave the daunting task of exposing conspiracy to Infowars.
As we approach self imposed red tape that robs America of pertinent confessions pre-Miranda Rights and global humiliation complete with bloody fingerprints thanks to a War on Terror that we can wage but won’t support (judicially or otherwise); The Messiah is willing to throw us a bone. It is proposed that the rights in question (which shouldn’t be theirs since a) they are not citizens and b) are our WARTIME ENEMY) can be withheld for a longer duration and any information obtained prior can potentially retain its validity in court.
With KSM (the alleged mastermind behind 9/11) and his case approaching (finally) we can only hope that this judgment is not only pushed through the process in a timely fashion but also contains a clause of retroactivity. Unfortunately, we’ve learned a lot about ‘hope’ recently. So buy your gas masks in bulk – and American made.
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Dan S
May 18th, 2010 at 5:48 am
Withholding Miranda Warnings Would Be Used To Prosecute Citizens For Alleged Non-Terrorist Crimes.
The problem with government withholding Miranda readings after arresting a terrorist suspect, is Government can too easily manipulate the timing of “Miranda warnings” to follow relentless interrogation after a suspect says something, that a government prosecutor can allege acknowledged a crime, not just a terrorist act, but any crime.
All proposals so far to postpone Miranda warnings have failed to distinguish between an independent non-violent or violent terrorist act not intended to promote terrorism from a terrorist act done to promote terrorism, e.g. further a political or ideological objective. For example, non-violent terrorist acts" are covered in the Patriot Act to prosecute Persons that support “coercion to influence a government or intimidation to affect a civilian population.” A riot or demonstration that blocked traffic or public access can be both federal and state terrorist acts. But under the current proposal, arrested demonstrators could be withheld their Miranda rights. Now consider how postponing Miranda Warnings could be used in conjunction with other laws to deny innocent suspects their Constitutional rights, for example Sen. McCain’s recently introduced March 4, 2010, S.3081: The “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” that would allow Americans to be detained indefinitely in Military custody without probable cause, on mere suspicion of supporting hostile activities. U.S. activists and individuals under S.3081 would be extremely vulnerable to prosecution, if they could be (detained on only suspicion with no Miranda rights) after being wore down by government interrogators. Under S.3081 American activists could without probable cause be held indefinitely because they did not know another activist they networked domestically or overseas had prior or intended to commit a terrorist act; under S.3081 U.S. Government would not first need to show probable cause that an activist knew what others were doing illegally in their network before indefinitely detaining an activist. S.3081 is so broadly written innocent anti-war protesters and Tea Party Groups might be arrested and detained just for attending demonstrations; Government would only need charge that everyone attending a demonstration "materially supported hostilities" against U.S. Government or a civilian population to detain unlawful demonstrators in military custody.
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