Judge Dreadful

Shouting 'Cross the Potomac (part of Quasipundit.com) picks up on the fact that there are doubts over whether the Al Qa'eda suspects arrested in Spain will be extradited here if the military tribunal is to apply. Quasipundit misses the identity of the key player in the drama. Baltasar Garzon, the judge who ordered the arrest of these suspects (remember, America, in continental Europe, without benefit of common law, judges conduct criminal investigations and order arrests -- a lovely system the EU wants to foist on Britain and Ireland), is actually a Socialist politician slumming it as a judge while his party's out of power. He was the one who found enough evidence to cause an international crisis by sking Britain to extradite General Pinochet, despite the presence in international law of the principle of sovereign immunity. I'm willing to bet my hat that Garzon would not have ordered these arrests if the President hadn't issued his tribunal order. He seems to want to impose the Code Napoleon on common law countries by legalistic diplomatic means. However, as a continental European socialist politician the odds are pretty good he'll have a skeleton or two in his closet. Perhaps an investigating magistrate in another country could issue a warrant for his arrest...