Overstepped

The Supreme Court has ruled that the President has overstepped his authority in his treatment of the prisoner(s) at Guantanamo Bay. They actually ruled on the treatment of just one prisoner, but it will obviously be extrapolated to the whole prison population there. It is time to acknowledge that we cannot simply throw suspected terrorists in jail indefinitely.
We don’t need to offer them cable tv and gym facilities, but we do need to allow them representation and knowledge of the charges against them. That’s pretty basic stuff. I’m sure all the wingnuts are screaming about SCOTUS being in the back pocket of al Qaeda and aiding and abetting terrorists, but their grip on reality is tenuous at best. Charges –actual documented formal accusations-- against these guys will only help us. We can make our case that they are bad instead of having some nebulous fog of guilty possibility engulfing the whole place. Like in grade school when someone threw an eraser when the teacher’s back was turned and the whole class lost their recess because one bonehead was guilty. Everybody loses.
Now perhaps the fog will clear. At least a bit.