Maybe the country can still be saved

Finally some order and respect is returning to the treatment of the Constitution in this country. It turns out that the Supreme Court feels that a US controlled military base, like Guantanamo Bay, still has to abide by the Constitution despite the strongest wishes of Bush and his administration. Finally, the people being held here will be able to demand that our government tell them why and present evidence supporting that reason. If our government doesn't have the proper evidence, the people will be released. This is the first step in restoring our country to what it claims to be, a beacon of freedom and the rule of law. The fact that anyone believes it is OK to keep people imprisoned indefinitely without needing to explain why is disturbing. The fact that the Bush administration has been doing so for years is despicable.

This quote from the right-wing Justice Scalia is rather disturbing: Justice Antonin Scalia said the majority "warps our Constitution." [http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/scotus/index.html]

I wouldn't consider applying the Constitution in the way it was meant to be applied a "warping", more like saying that anyone the government decides doesn't get to benefit from the Constitution is a warping. Especially since we've also declared those same people to not be prisoners of war, and therefore the Geneva Conventions don't apply either. So the Bush Administration (through Bush's direct consent) declared that the people being held at Guantanamo Bay were neither Prisoners of War (military prisoners) nor civilian prisoners, therefore their treatment could not be defined by either the Geneva Conventions or the Constitution.

I'm glad something is finally being done about it. Hopefully Kucinich's articles of impeachment against Bush will make some progress and we can show the rest of the world that we actually don't like having lying, war-mongering tyrants leading our country.