Senator Lindsey Graham Says Suspend the Constitution For Boston Marathon Suspect

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Senator Lindsey Graham Says Suspend the Constitution For Boston Marathon Suspect And Designate Him An Enemy Combatant

Why is it that those who spend an inordinate amount of time professing their dedication and fealty to the United States Constitution seem to always be among the first to toss our founding document out the window the moment it becomes inconvenient to their desires?

In a series of tweets posted by South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Friday, the conservative, ‘strict constructionist’ argued that nineteen-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—suspected of being one of the Boston Marathon terrorists and taken into custody on Friday evening—should be treated as an enemy combatant and denied his due process rights under the Constitution.

Were the Administration to follow Graham’s advice, Tsarnaev would forever be denied his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and to have the counsel of an attorney. Without these rights granted to all defendants pursuant to Miranda, anything this suspect might say to interrogators before being advised of these rights would still be admissible in a court of law.

I say ‘forever denied’ because Mr. Tsarnov will not be getting his Miranda warnings for a period of time even without declaring him an enemy combatant.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/04/19/senator-lindsey-graham-says-suspend-the-constitution-for-boston-marathon-suspect-and-designate-him-an-enemy-combatant/

[BeyondGeography]

1. It's all toilet paper for them

Save the 2nd amendment, of course.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. People need to understand that the Republican Party LOATHES the U.S. Constitution.

They HATE it because it stands in the way of Big Corps that are trying to usurp the document for We the People, and replace it with an umbrella Corporate Charter for We the Corporations.

But this news should be spread far and wide that a prominent Republican Rightwinger shits on the Constitution when it interferes with their lust for creating more enemies to hurl the United States into perpetual war.

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3. yet they hold the 2nd amendment as if it were the holy grail

from the article:

For Senator Graham to spend the past few weeks arguing that background checks for terrorists, criminals or anyone else who want to purchase a gun at a gun show violates the Second Amendment to our Constitution only to turn around and seek to strip an American citizen of his constitutional due process rights is nothing short of the epitome of hypocrisy and beyond abhorrent.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. ONLY because the 2nd Amendment is good for corporate profits.

They really don't give a damn whether or not people have a right to bear arms. They care about the profits of their benefactors, which includes firearm manufacturers. The Republicans are looking out for corporations, not people.

[treestar]

4. And where is all the outrage here?

considering a drone strike against an American citizen in Yemen was considered a violation of the Constitution, now this Republican is asserting that US citizens in the US should not have due process rights. Note how Republicans skate.

[whatchamacallit]

6. This really needs explaining?

Outrage usually requires some element of surprise or disappointment. Republican subhuman slime are expected to be reprehensible. This is why we're harder on our own.

[Javaman]

7. from all the things he's stupidly said over the last several days...

it appears as if this moron is itching for a police state.