Barack Obama, CCR, national security, and terrorists
Scott Ott is troubled that Barack Obama is having great pains trying to reconcile his intentions and security realities. In the BBC article, that’s British Broadcast Company, the US human rights group Center for Constitutional Rights probably explains Obama’s mentality:
“Dozens of men from Yemen who have been cleared for release after extensive scrutiny by the government’s Guantanamo Review Task Force are about to be left in limbo once more due to politics, not facts.
“Many are about to begin their ninth year in indefinite detention.
“Halting the repatriation of Yemeni men cleared by the Task Force after months of careful review is unconscionable.
“It will also effectively prevent any meaningful progress towards closing Guantanamo, which President Obama has repeatedly argued will make our nation safer.”
OK, so they’re truly dismayed that these peeps have been in prison for nine years. Now, let’s assume these barbarians actually were protected by the US Constitution, which they’re not. This is what they would be facing since they probably killed someone:
U.S. statutes require mandatory minimum sentences of life imprisonment or the death penalty for nearly all first-degree murder convictions in federal court.
So, someone kills someone in the US, it’s life in prison or death. CCR is OK with that. If a terrorist kills a bunch of people, CCR thinks they should be freed.
Yeah. Right.