Monday, June 16, 2008

Kennedy, Breyer, Stevens, Ginsburg, and Souter Say Suicide is Painless

By SFBert

Horrors. Horrors. Horrors. That is what the Supreme Court of the United States has unleashed on the people of the country whose freedoms it is supposed to protect. Before the Constitution was written, a document called the “Declaration of Independence” existed which listed among other things, man’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It is certainly no accident that those rights were listed in that order by those courageous enough to seek freedom from Great Britain.

Last week’s decision by the Supreme Court is now past mention by the media. It is now past mention by even the right-wing pundits on talk radio. It is now accepted. But it looms large to those of us who have been both in war and in law enforcement.

To my knowledge, none of the five who passed this decision down have ever been participants in a war as combatants and none have been on the streets as police officers. So my understanding of why they decided what they did was to gain more power for the judiciary at the exclusion of history, international law, and prior lawful actions by our government from the time of the Revolutionary War on.

Those of us who have been engaged in the enforcement of our laws as police officers have been called to testify against those we arrested. The defense always starts with an effort to create a doubt in the mind of the jury that the arrest was unlawful. So we go sit in stands most of the time many months after we have made the arrest and are asked to identify the person we arrested. We are asked in minute detail what we did immediately before, during, and after the arrest. When evidence is presented, there has to be documentation for the chain of custody for the evidence from the time it was taken in to the time it showed up in court.

During the time that it took for the defendant to come to trial, they fatten up in jail, or choose to go on diets to lose weight. They shave or grow facial hair. They change hair styles, cut all their hair off, or if bald, put on wigs or grow it back if they had shaved heads when arrested. They never are in the same clothes when arrested. Defense attorneys try to discredit us by asking us about what was the defendant wearing when arrested months ago. They ask us about why the descriptions we wrote in our reports do not match the defendants sitting in the dock. And in the case of evidence, we are quizzed in detail by Junior Perry Masons if we are “positive, positive, positive this is the same weapon you claimed to have taken off Mr. Defendant.”

We resort to little tricks of the trade such as taking the grips off a pistol and carving our initials inside them before we put them in the evidence locker. That way when it shows back up in court we can take the grips off and see whether they have our initials on them or not. Defense attorneys have presented Trojan Horses in court to see whether we could identify evidence we may have handled only for a total of ten minutes eighteen months ago.

But we accept this as police officers. These are the rules to protect American citizens. And in most cases we are dealing with only one individual and we can call in other officers to witness what is happening so we can get supplemental reports from them to protect the credibility of our arrest. And you thought cops gathered at a crime scene just because we’re a bunch on nosy busy-bodies. No – it serves a purpose in court. Again, to my knowledge no Supreme Court Justice has ever worked the streets nor testified in court as an arresting officer subject to the questioning from a defense attorney who has had months to prepare for the moment.

Now, let’s look at combat. Much has been written about it – from the stand point of psychological and physical effects; from the stand point of history; and, from the stand point of lessons to be learned for improving tactics. Men react to it differently. The reactions range from freezing up in disbelief that these events are happening all around oneself to the state of the Zen mind in highly trained warriors who see all but focus on no one thing. The one thing we all sort of agree on, is that it is confusing as hell.

Battle is an action to force choices on the other side. We try to impose choices on the enemy, they try to impose choices on us. It is the side that imposes the worst choices on the other, that wins. Stand, run, fiqht, hide, go right, go left, go forward, fall back – choices, choices, choices. And modern battle is no longer the battle of massed formations – no more Spartan phalanx, no Roman squares, no 19th century Waterloos. It is one man, and maybe a buddy or two, against another individual or two. Win and move to the next man, win and move to the next, and so on and so on and so on. So if you are lucky enough to take a prisoner, you pass him to the rear, and you keep moving on. That’s modern combat.

Months later, if your prisoner gets a hearing, are you going to remember him? Are you going to remember if he was carrying a weapon to make him a combatant? Chances are if you took him prisoner, he shed his weapon. "Well”, the defense attorneys will ask, what makes you so sure he was a combatant?” “Well,” they will ask, “Did you look up to make sure that this was the man shooting at you? If he was shooting at you ? What was he shooting at you with and where is it now? My client was just a poor herder caught in the middle of a fight between you and the enemy. Can you tell me what he was wearing when you captured him? Why was there no immediate written report that you had this man in custody? Did you speak his language so you could ask him? No, you just unlawfully pointed a gun in his face and sent him to the rear.”

And the truly pathetic truth of what I write is that there are legions of attorneys who for ideology, for hate of country, and for personal gain (the government pays attorneys well), will line up to get the Jihadists set free.

There have been sad days in our country’s history. The shame of this week’s event is that so few know its consequences and that so many on the left rejoice at the poison we just drank in the name of Constitutional rights. One day, I pray, this decision will be reversed and it passes into history along side of the Dred Scott decision as bad SCOTUS decisions. But until then, June 12, 2008 will pass into history as the day that the Supreme Court of the US did decide that the Constitution was a suicide pact after all.

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My Favorite Speeches and Other Items of Interest

  • George Bush's March 28, 2007 Discusses Economy, War on Terror During Remarks to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070328-2.html
  • Mitch McConnell's March 15, 2007 Funding For Troops, Not Timelines for Retreat; http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=270747&start=1
  • Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987 Tear Down This Wall Speech; http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
  • Vice President Cheney's March 12, 2007 Remarks at the AIPAC 2007 Policy Conference; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070312.html

Winston Churchill Quotes

  • A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
  • Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
  • Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
  • Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
  • Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
  • Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
  • I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
  • I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
  • I like a man who grins when he fights.
  • I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
  • If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
  • In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
  • It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
  • Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
  • Never, never, never give up.
  • No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
  • One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
  • Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
  • The first quality that is needed is audacity.
  • The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
  • The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
  • There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
  • These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
  • They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
  • True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
  • Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
  • War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
  • War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
  • We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
  • We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
  • When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
  • When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Ronald Reagan Quotes

  • "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
  • Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
  • All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
  • Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources
  • Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
  • Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
  • Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
  • Facts are stupid things.
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
  • Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
  • Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
  • Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
  • History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
  • How can a president not be an actor?
  • How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
  • I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
  • I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
  • In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
  • Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?".
  • Man is not free unless government is limited.
  • My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
  • No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
  • Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
  • Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
  • Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
  • Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
  • The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
  • The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
  • There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
  • To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
  • Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
  • We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
  • We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
  • We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
  • We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
  • Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
  • You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

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