Will Jose Padilla Now Become The New Lib Poster Boy?

Question

It has been quite some time since the untimely passing of their last poster boy Tookie Williams.

Padilla picture replaced the Tookie poster over enlightenments bed in his parents basement today.

quid pro has applied for conjugal visitation rights today to consumate his love for Padilla.

Answer 1

I am sure code pink is mobilizing a protest, while the aclu dusts of their law books, and al & jessie make travel arrangements.....i have to wonder how soon the face of padilla will replace che on the liberals t shirts.....

Answer 2

Why would José Padilla be a poster child for anyone? I am amazed at how the right seems to think every miniscule thing they could possibley accuse the liberals of are blown out of proportion and very untrue. But they do that by nature and can't help it. They are so scared to death to disccuss REAL issues that they resort to name calling, false accusations, lies and of course personal attacks, their most frequent tactic. Anything to get out of talking REAL issues. Oh well they are the loyal opposition and we must respect the fact that they have an opinion no matter how lame. Their commander guy thinks the Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper but we still respect it and their first amendment rights.

Answer 3

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007593

He already is their Poster Boy.

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when Jose Padilla became a liberal icon in the war on terror.

Was it June 2002, when President Bush, exercising the authority that other wartime Presidents have used, declared him an enemy combatant? Padilla had been arrested the previous month at O'Hare Airport, en route home from Pakistan, on allegations that he planned to detonate a dirty bomb in the U.S.

Or perhaps the moment was December of that year, when a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the President has the constitutional authority to detain enemy combatants. Padilla's case has since bounced around the federal judiciary, and this September a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the President "unquestionably" has the right to detain a U.S. citizen who has taken up arms against his country. The appeals court invoked the precedent set by the Supreme Court last year in the Hamdi case, which concerned another American citizen being detained as an enemy combatant.

Somewhere along the way, Padilla became a symbol--not of the sort of threat we are up against in the war on terror, but as a victim of the U.S. government

Answer 4

Padilla is probably going to spend the rest of his days at the maximum security prison in Colorado. It won't be fun.

Answer 5

Hope you become the poster boy someday.

Answer 6

He wouldn't do though because he was convicted. Might do well but it seems like if he was acquitted they could say 'hooray another person was wronged by the establishment! another martyr!' and hoist him up on their shoulders or whatever

Answer 7

Hey do have a tendency to gravitate toward the worse of the worse, don't they?

ala the Clintons....

Answer 8

If he was smart, he'd read Ann Coulters latest column to see how liberals treat their posterboy/girls once they're done with them. Cindy Sheehan anyone?

Answer 9

Probably...but no need for you to soil your depends yellowbelly...you will always be yahoo's number one chickenhawk/poseur/coward.

Answer 10

OMG! More bored Rep neo-cons!Can't you guys maybe, get a hobby, or better yet, get a life!
Look at how well your poster boy is doing! Geo.Bush
3570 or more American lives lost in Iraq!
650,000 or more Iraqi lives lost!
Congratulations! He is doing a bang of up!
Bring them home before more are killed!