WHY DON'T THE WINGNUTS GET "RULE OF LAW"?

They are upset that a federal judge ruled that the evidence against 5 detainees in Guantanamo is inadequate to justify their continued incarceration.

Judge Declares Five Detainees Held Illegally
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: November 20, 2008
NY Times

A federal judge issued the Bush administration a sharp setback on Thursday, ruling that five Algerian men have been held unlawfully at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp for nearly seven years and ordering their release.

...The judge, Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court in Washington, said the government’s secret evidence in the case had been weak: what he described as “a classified document from an unnamed source” for its central claim against the men, with little way to measure credibility.

“To rest on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with this court’s obligation,” Judge Leon said. He urged the government not to appeal and said the men should be released “forthwith.”

One could try to give a charitable interpretation to their complaints, perhaps by interpreting their remarks as worries about letting confirmed jihadists loose into American society BUT THAT'S NOT THEIR REAL POINT. As DrewM. at Ace of Spades put it so well:

Judge Leon, like all other lower court judges have to figure this out for themselves but they are bound to give these guys fair hearings and that's not their fault, that's the Supreme Court's fault.

They really are disturbed that we gave fellow human beings their day in court, so the next time you hear the Right prattle about the "rule of low," remind them of Guantanamo.