Happy Fourth Indeed

Hear's the whole point.
the Supreme Court recently decided the Hamdan case. They declared the Bush military tribunals in Gitmo unconstitutional. It was a great day. And for the 7/4 I give you Commander Swift, Hamdan's military appointed lawyer:

In July, 2003, Hamdan was to be one of the first to face trial by military commission. In November, 2003, Lt. Cmdr. Swift, a Navy judge advocate general, was assigned as Hamdan's military appointed attorney. A superior officer ordered Swift to secure a plea bargain. But Swift instead decided to argue that Hamdan should be accorded the rights and protections of the Geneva Convention and that the military commissions at Guantanamo were themselves invalid.

According to reporting in The Los Angeles Times, Swift was fearful of the dangerous precedent that could be set by denying international standards of justice even to terrorists.

"I feel like we all won, that the rule of law won, and that is essentially what we are all about," Swift told the Times.

Swift also told the Associated Press yesterday that he had informed his client about the ruling by telephone. "I think he was awe-struck that the court would rule for him, and give a little man like him an equal chance," Swift said. "Where he's from, that is not true."

Doesn't that make you sweel with a little bit fo pride, and make you warm, like maybe America is still worth something more than fatasses with flags on their SUVs? Like maybe the rule of law and priciples of freedom and liberty still mean something. That's what it's for, the Fourth I mean, that's what it's for.