The Supremes: Court is Right on One Thing and Way Too Far to the Nutso Right on Another

First, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by one of the greatest haters of everything God created, Jerry Falwell, concerning a Web site that uses a domain name very close to Falwell's name after an Appeals Court decided the guy who registered that domain is not cybersquatting. Good.

Yet, in a MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT case, the Supremes also refused to hear the case of two Chinese Muslims who've been kept quite wrongly at Guatanamo Bay as "terrorists" by the Bushies for more than four years and, even after the U.S. finally acknowledged they can find no link between these two men and terrorism, they are STILL being held.

From the UK Guardian:

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from two Chinese Muslims who were mistakenly captured as enemy combatants more than four years ago and are still being held at the U.S. prison in Cuba.

The men's plight has posed a dilemma for the Bush administration and courts. Previously, a federal judge said the detention of the ethnic Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay is unlawful, but that there was nothing federal courts could do.

Lawyers for the two contend they should be released, something the Bush administration opposes, unless they can go to a country other than the United States.

A year ago, the U.S. military decided that Abu Bakker Qassim and A'Del Abdu al-Hakim are not ``enemy combatants'' as first suspected after their 2001 arrests in Pakistan. They were captured and shipped to Guantanamo Bay along with hundreds of other suspected terrorists.

The U.S. government has been unable to find a country willing to accept the two men, along with other Uighurs. They cannot be returned to China because they likely will be tortured or killed.

John Roberts and company should be ASHAMED of themselves for having no testicles whatsoever when it comes to the Bushies. They do not deserve to wear the robes of the nation's highest court and do not in any way protect the rights of people.