Al Qaeda Membership Has its Privileges
by Christopher Plante (More by this author)

Posted: 05/11/2007
Democrats in Congress are again pushing an effort to extend U.S. Constitutional protections to all the people of the world. Well, not all the people in the world, just the ones that are fanatically dedicated to slaughtering any and all Americans. If you’re not an Islamic terrorist obsessed with the wholesale murder of Americans, then you need not apply for the generous habeas corpus protections.

Astonishing as it may seem, congressional democrats are struggling in a time of war to find the best way to create an unprecedented package of legal benefits that will apply exclusively to the avowed enemies of the United States. It’s sort of a rewards plan for members of al Qaeda, and those who are of like mind. Ironically, they do this even as they look for a way to abandon the notion of bringing democracy to millions of people who have been brutally oppressed by despotic regimes and Islamic terrorist butchers whose contempt for such quaint legal concepts is well documented.

The Washington Post editorial board is again urging the democrats to grant “unlawful enemy combatantsâ€