And so one wants to ask Sarah Palin: where is the Writ of Habeas Corpus in the bible? Where is the presumption of innocence in the Bible?
The Washington Post reports:
It was in St. Paul last week that Palin drew raucous cheers when she delivered this put-down of Obama: “Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”
Obama had a few problems with that.
“First of all, you don’t even get to read them their rights until you catch ‘em,” Obama said here, drawing laughs from 1,500 supporters in a high school gymnasium. “They should spend more time trying to catch Osama bin Laden and we can worry about the next steps later.”
The answer is that they are not there. Who knows how anyone would be tried and their innocence or guilt proved if the christian reconstructionist Sarah Palin had her way. The Constitution is not some silly piece of paper to be tossed aside when it is no longer convenient. It defines at the deepest level of our culture what it means to be an American. There is nothing more primal than that.
“These people,” sheesh!
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