Apocalypse Deferred

Thank God - for now, anyway:

A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What’s a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?

That in essence was the Bush Administration’s argument to a federal appeals court in a nineteen-page emergency request that maintained there would be only “minimal harms” if the detainees were to stay at Guantanamo a while longer.

Late Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed, halting the seventeen men’s release for at least another week to give the government more time to make arguments in the case.

The appeals court set a deadline of next Thursday for additional filings, when it will be left up to the judges to decide how quickly to act — and in whose favor.

Note the orientation of this USA Today report - all about the "stymied freedom" of the Islamist terrorist illegal combatants and the "harms" that would be dealt to them by keeping them locked up in Gitmo where the belong for only an additional couple of weeks.  Gee, if you didn't know better, you'd get the idea that "the nation's newspaper" is in the same insane, treasonous dhimmi tank with Judge Urbina.  Is it any wonder that this was phrased as an "emergency appeal"?

Ensign Ed compiles a good summation:

Our armed forces capture seventeen Uighers in terrorist training camps far from home in Afghanistan.  They have received training in al-Qaeda tactics — exactly the kind of people we want to keep out of our country while AQ wages war on the West.  We’d like to get them out of Gitmo after having derived what intelligence we can from them, but no one seems terribly interested in taking al-Qaeda terrorists into their countr, either.  The Chinese want them, but we’re afraid the terrorists will be mistreated by Beijing, which is suppressing a Uigher insurgency at the moment.

What solution does our brilliant judiciary reach?  Let them live in the nation’s capital, the very place al-Qaeda trains its recruits to destroy!  What a great idea!

I'd ask why we should give a frog's fat leg what the ChiComms end up doing to these animals, but then I know the response I'd get, and I'm hypertensive enough as it is.

And just think: Barack Hoover Obama will have at least four years to make the federal judiciary more like Judge Urbina.  Unless the Islamists, whether al Qaeda or the Iranian mullahgarchy, manage to shatter our country first sufficiently that judges will no longer be relevant.

Does irony get any bitterer than that?