I'd like as much face time for our little blog!
Jordi
An excerpt:
There is a provision of the Military Commissions Act that says the government can declare a United States citizen an enemy combatant and hold them without habeas corpus.
When you suspend the constitution you have to be little bit nervous about that. I swore a couple of times to protect and defend the constitution both as a military officer and as a member of Congress. You can hold people in this country by charging them under the 5th amendment and charge them with a crime and they get due process. American citizens should not be deprived due process.
So do you favor repealing that provision of the act?
As long as there is a legal way to cover them if they are an American citizen they get full rights as an American citizen.
Is that a yes?
That’s a yes. When we ignore our own rules we hurt ourselves as a nation. We hurt our ethic, we hurt what we stand for in the eyes of our people and the eyes of the world.
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Here's another excerpt:
When you voted against the hate crimes bill some people said you promised that you would vote for it and made the accusation that you lied to them.
Carney: "Of course they did. I didn’t promise but said that I would consider the bill very carefully. As it turns out what we ended up with a piece of legislation that creates special categories for certain people ... All crime is hate crime."
(Sorry, I couldn't get the blockquote tag accepted in comments.) The accusation of the lie comes from Howie Klein at Huffington Post, who noted that Carney had promised in his campaign to support "that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes."
But then Carney didn't vote for the hate crime bill because it created categories for hate crime, and all crime is hate crime. That's an acceptable position for someone to have. But the whole point of having something called "hate crime" is to distinguish it as a special category. The rationale that Carney is giving here is really that he doesn't believe in the distinct "hate crime" designation.
And that's pretty hard to square with his campaign promise to support prosecution of hate crimes, quoted above from the Huff Post article.
I found that passage interesting as well, but it was news to me that Carney had voted for ENDA (Employment Non-discrimination Act). Still, I'm left thinking that maybe Rep. Carney voted against the bill out of political calculation. The rationale does not fit with his previous rhetoric, and he was clearly preparing to run against a well-funded right winger like Chris Hackett.
Thanks for the link. If you want some face time with Carney just ask, he's very accessable
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