Redstate: "We really wanna be William Roper!"

Kids these days. It's like they don't even bother with the classics.

Do You Support Habeas Corpus Rights for Osama bin Laden?

This from Redstate, who of course tear into the obscenity of trying to determine guilt before punishment with all the belly shaking gusto of true fanatics.

Well, alright. If they want to foist the mantle of Sir Thomas More on me, who am I to argue?

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

Was that really so hard?

Yes there's a reason we like to require the government to show they have cause to hold someone. It tends to decrease the number of innocent people that are, say, whisked off to secret sites and held without trial. Oh and possibly tortured. But, hey, maybe Redstate just digs on the gulag system so long as it's done for the greater good, of course.
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