OK, campers. A terrorist has been caught alive. So what do the dumprats crying about now? Boo hoo hoo, no Miranda rights given! Shows you the priorities of this bunch.
OP. kpete (Star Member) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:33 pm) Original Post - Post Count: 38,615
No Miranda rights for now for bombing suspect
Source: Politico
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured Friday night will not be immediately read his Miranda rights, a Justice Department official said.
The announcement came as a debate broke out among lawmakers, lawyers and political activists over whether the suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, should be prosecuted in a civilian criminal court or subjected to military interrogation and over when and whether Tsarnaev should be told about his right to an attorney.
eginning several hours before Tsarnaev’s capture, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote on Twitter that the suspect ought to be placed in military custody.
“If captured, I hope Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes,†Graham wrote Friday afternoon. “The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to ‘remain silent.’â€
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<hr size="1" noshade=""> this will backfire, it always does...
kp

OK, here we go.
1. Kali (Star Member) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:36 pm) Reply to kpete (Original post) - Post Count: 33,051
yeah **** the constitution!!11!!!
just a piece of paper
Just like the way you guys protect the 2nd and the 10th amendments. Gotcha.
5. LovingA2andMI (Moocher) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:44 pm) Reply to Kali (#1) - Post Count: 248
Did Dzhokhar and Tamerlane Tsarnaev care about the Constitutional rights....
Of the citizens they murdered and injured to the point that many lost their limbs? NOPE, not at all.
Supporting President Obama 150% on this one! Charge, convict and punish Dzhokar Tsarnaev with the Death Penalty!
OK, someone who actually thinks that sometimes the "rights" are actually pragmatic when it is a terrorist act, and actually credits Der Leader for this. So even in contradiction to the thread, he gives kudos to the one who has screwed the pooch with regard to international terrorism.
9. Kali (Star Member) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:51 pm) Reply to LovingA2andMI (#5) - Post Count: 33,051
does any criminal?
the protections are for all of us. it is how we are better than them.
Back to DU reality. "For all the criminals..."
2. brett_jv (Moocher) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:37 pm) Reply to kpete (Original post) - Post Count: 98
I understand the thinking ...
But I think it's still wrong and unconstitutional.
If he wasn't a citizen I'd entertain the idea, but he is, and he was caught on US Soil.
So this should be a no-brainer to read him his rights.
Yeppers. A "no-brainter." From one such specimen to another...
3. midnight (Moocher) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:40 pm) Reply to brett_jv (#2) - Post Count: 23,059
Not if the NDAA has anything to say about it.....
8. DirkGently (Star Member) - Fri Apr 19, 2013 (10:50 pm) Reply to 24601 (#4) - Post Count: 6,520
They're invoking a SCOTUS "public safety exception" to
Miranda. So the idea is that any statements will be admissible. It's an odd, narrow exception based on a case where cops cornered a guy, saw his empty holster, and demanded to know where the gun was hidden before they read him his rights. If the statement had been inadmissible, apparently the whole case would have been tossed.
Strange thing publicly announcing invoking this. The case reads like it's something a cop would decide, on the spot, was necessary, not something you plan out and announce.
Not a great way to go here, in my opinion.
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