Although we agree with many things that Lindsey Graham may say, the ones, tweeted yesterday, are very scary.
The Boston bomber is an American citizen and should be treated as such. He did a dastardly and horrible deed, however, he still is an American unlike the underwear bomber or the shoe bomber who were foreign nationals. He should have been given his Miranda rights upon arrest and he should be tried (as was Timothy McVeigh of Oklahoma City fame) in an American court by a jury of his peers. The lack of a warning before questioning will become an issue before trial. The so-called "public safety" exception will be challenged by any competent defense attorney.
Secondly, by wanting drones in the air over America sends chills down through our bones. If the police (local, state, ATF, FBI, DHS) or any city, state or Federal Administration can unleash this weapon against our citizens without a conviction, without a finding of responsibility, we have just allowed the law enforcers to become judge, jury and executioner. How many abuses have we seen over the years by police? Do you really want them to have this weapon at their command? We don't and any rational citizen should not either.
These are the times when our freedoms can be lost. We already allow federal agents to grope us at the airports (physically or via technology), DHS is on a buying spree for weapons, ammunition and vehicles, and our guns are being targeted for confiscation. Now we have a Republican Senator explicitly saying that a citizen should not be guaranteed his rights and promotion of using drones to kill American citizens, not overseas, but right here in the good ole USA. This is a very disturbing development.
In the next few months, we must be on guard to prevent further erosion of our rights. It will be our responsibility as it is clear that the governing class is not interested in what is best for the average American.
Conservative Tom
Saturday, 20 Apr 2013 10:40 AM
Graham on Twitter: Treat Bomb Suspect as Enemy Combatant
“I hope Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes,” the South Carolina senator said in a series of Twitter posts Friday night, prior to the teen's capture.
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The enemy combatant status is generally used for members of al Qaeda and other forces, which allows them to be held indefinitely for questioning.
Graham also said the Obama administration should use drones to track down any other suspects in the case.
“America is a battlefield because the terrorists think it is,” Graham said. “It sure would be nice to have a drone up there.”
Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen last year, making the case more complicated. His older brother, Tamerlan Tsamaev, 26, who was killed Friday in a shootout with police, held a green card but was not an American citizen. Legal experts do not believe the Obama administration will change the younger brother's criminal status, even though it has maintained that Miranda warnings can be delayed for certain terrorism suspects.
However, the Obama administration has refused to hold other terrorism suspects under enemy combatant status, including suspects like underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was not a U.S. citizen.
"The current administration has a firm and publicly stated policy against using military detention for domestic captures or U.S. citizens. So whatever the (National Defense Authorization Act) may theoretically authorize or tolerate, it doesn't affect this situation," said Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow and research director in public law at the Brookings Institution.
While there has been no definite, direct evidence presented to link the brothers to al Qaeda, Graham said the Obama administration needs to take care when dealing with the incident.
“The Obama Administration needs to be contemplating these issues and should not rush into a bad decision,” Graham tweeted.
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