A federal judge has declined to release two terrorism suspects from Guantanamo while also reaffirming the legality of the government to hold them. Good.

A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government’s authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government had shown enough evidence to justify holding Yemeni citizen Moath Hamza Amhed Al Alwi and Tunisian Hisham Sliti as “enemy combatants” linked to al Qaeda or Taliban forces.

“Human rights” activists are up in arms and demand the immediate release of the two dangerous terrorism suspects. The ironic part being, of course, that much of the same people would blast the Bush Administration if it did release the suspects and they went on to attack the nation or its interests. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.