Thanks, SCOTUS!
June 17, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
This is the sort of thing we can look forward to thanks to SCOTUS - the release of a convicted terrorist, “Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, thanks to a legal technicality:
Just in case you think the spat McCain and Obama are having today over criminal protections for jihadis is academic, behold.
… With the prospect of extradition removed, the Ministry of Justice has been forced to release him by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
He’ll have to wear an ankle bracelet - not unlike the one even Martha Stewart had no problem figuring out how to get out of - and he’s forbidden from using cell phones, computers, and the internet. (Yeah, like that’ll stick.) He’s on the dole to the tune of 1,000 pounds a month, so now whatever plots he hatches are taxpayer subsidized.
But hey, we can all feel good about the fact that his human rights were protected. And the icing on this cake is that it wasn’t even decided on by the Brits directly; the court decided the way it did because of an EU convention to which they are bound.
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