Sean Bossinger’s Doings

With apologies to the makers of the 1994 film, it's never been ''the madness of King George'' that troubled me.

No, it was the arrogance, a hubris so awesome and awful you tended to forget George is not, in fact, a king but a president. One might have been forgiven for forgetting, since President George W. Bush has governed pretty much as a King George would have: by fiat and decree.

So the Supreme Court's recent rebuke of the Bush administration and the administration's chastened acceptance of same comes like spring air into a musty room. Frankly, the substance of the rebuke is of secondary importance to me, though I will recount it here.

GUANTANAMO CASE

Late last month, the high court, on a 5-3 vote (Chief Justice John Roberts did not participate), ruled that the president could not, on his sole authority, put detainees at Guant

CNN is reporting this morning that the detainees at Guantanamo, most of whom arrived there shortly after our invasion of Afghanistan, will receive all of the privileges of the Geneva Convention.

While it is about time that these detainees are granted these rights, what this truly amounts to is grandstanding by this administration in an attempt to lift the third shell in the shell game, expose the ball, and say something along the lines of “See, it was there all the time. We told you that we would give these people substantially the same rights as the Geneva Convention, all along, and now we're doing it.”

What is most deplorable about this is that there was absolutely no reason that these prisoners of war should have been denied these rights to begin with. We are the dominant, neigh, ONLY military superpower in the world. We need to understand that we set the example by how we treat those who we capture. Regardless of what their fellow believers or countrymen have done to ours.

I'm back from vacation, and better than ever.

Of course, I only have to work one day before the Independence Day holiday…

So, what's going on with you all out there?