Pardon me if I am seeing red this morning:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others accused in the attacks will be put on criminal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce later Friday.
WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
So, Barack Obama will be staging his own New York production of Chicago, with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as Roxy Hart (“You had it coming, you had it coming, you only have yourselves to blame….” ). We will be treated to months upon months of front page headlines giving a platform to this lunatic war criminal. The courthouses and City office buildings in lower Manhattan (City Hall, the state courts, the immigration offices, the Court of International Trade, the US Attorney’s Office, the DA’s office, and the main city office building that does marriage licenses and the like are all within about a two-block radius of the federal courthouses and the Metropolitan Correctional Center) will be snarled with massive security, as if lower Manhattan needs more traffic and more armed men. We’ll have to have pretrial hearings on the inevitable countless motions about how KSM was apprehended and the evidence against him collected, undoubtedly to the detriment of vital sources of intelligence, like when we lost the ability to track Osama bin Laden by cellphone after our tracing of his calls was revealed by a prosecution under the DOJ Criminal Division then headed by…Eric Holder. And that’s even before he starts in on the sob stories about being waterboarded. I’m not seriously concerned that KSM stands any chance of being acquitted, but a hung jury? It only takes one person with extreme political or religious views, one juror who just can’t abide the death penalty (even assuming Obama’s DOJ pursues it). Just imagine the controversy, if there are Muslims in the jury pool, over what questions prosecutors are permitted to ask them and whether they can be challenged. And of course, it sends the message to our enemies that there’s nothing you can do to us that will get you sent through a process rougher than the one we used on Michael Vick or Martha Stewart.
I know I have spoken and written many rough things about Obama, but as Michael Moore would say, most New Yorkers voted for the man – why is he doing this to us?
It’s impossible, really, to caricature this White House; even Josiah Bartlett didn’t run through this many liberal stereotypes in his first season. Obama needs new writers. Blow up the World Trade Center and kill 3,000 Americans? Jail! Don’t buy health insurance? Jail! Win the Nobel Prize for doing jack squat. Travel to Copenhagen to beg and grovel unsuccessfully for the Olympics, and pledge to go visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but blow off traveling to Berlin to commemorate the victory of freedom over Communism (then give a tepid speech on the subject that refuses to acknowledge Ronald Reagan). Commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland by unilaterally abandoning missile defense installations in Poland. Insult and disdain one faithful ally after another – Britain, India, Israel, Poland, Columbia, you name it – and cozy up to our enemies, with nothing to show for it – nothing to show for anything he’s done in foreign affairs. All but ignore democratic protests in Iran while supporting an illegal effort by Honduras’ president to stay on beyond the end of his term. Suddenly complain about corruption and electoral fraud in Afghanistan, while seeking the favor of Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and Vladimir Putin – heck, Obama endorsed half a dozen people in Chicago more corrupt than Hamid Karzai. On and on and on we go, with President Apology constantly straining to run down his country’s record and talk up the propagandized view of history of its enemies. He’s taken more time to “evaluate” General McChrystal’s recommendations about Afghan policy than it took George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan and capture Kabul after September 11. It would be funny if it wasn’t tragically stupid and bound to get people killed. There is no mistake of our past that Obama is unwilling to remake.
If there’s an upside to all this, after months of watching KSM up close, even liberal New Yorkers may be ready to give Dick Cheney a medal.
Moe Lane
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
I think Obama values approval of the world elite
smagar (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 10:12AM EST (link)This will make him the toast of Davos and Paris and Hollywood.
So what if NYC’ers suffer? What are they going to do in 2010—vote for a Republican?
I am confident this was thoroughly calculated by the Obama WH.
Take your medicine, NYC. You wanted him (Obama); you got him.
I am sorry for Debra Burlingame and the 9/11 victims, but I find it hard to muster sympathy for NYC in general.
“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)
This is a chance to bash Bush.
Loren Heal (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 10:12AM EST (link)The real target is the “Bush is torturer” straw man.
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Join the Concord Project, and follow @lheal, if you dare.
I suppose should New Yorkers ask the question you pose,
Tbone (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 10:12AM EST (link)“I know I have spoken and written many rough things about Obama, but as Michael Moore would say, most New Yorkers voted for the man – why is he doing this to us?”
I would answer with a quote by Roxy Heart in the musical Chicago. I think you know the one I mean.
It’s not like Obama is reticent about throwing supporters under his bus, now is it?
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
At First I Thought Obama
julianusrex Friday, November 13th at 10:34AM EST (link)was just drunk with power. Now I believe he is truly insane. He must go. The Constitution provides for his replacement in case of incapacity. Start the procedure.
Applying for his next job...?
larryp Friday, November 13th at 10:54AM EST (link)It is Obama applying for his next job by buttering up world Opinion.I would not be surprised if theUN moved BAn Ki Moon out just like the Corleones moved Klingman oiut of teh casino in the Godfather.
The fascinating thing is that Manhattan is Obama-Cnetral. Overwhelming support for him. Yet wouldn’t you think this tril puts a giant target on their backs.Would notthe trial be atarget foran attack by fanatic islam bombers or even regular freee-lance Muslim bombers?
Once again Obama sticks it to his allies.
Why is Obama doing this?
pac_NY (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:14AM EST (link)BECAUSE HE HAS NO LOYALTY TO THIS COUNTRY, ITS CITIZENS, NOR OUR CONSTITUTION – LYING TO THE WORLD AS HE TOOK A SACRED OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THIS NATION.
Aided by the completely useless idiots who voted for him, he simply waltzed into the highest office of the freest nation on the planet, and thus began to dismantle it’s foundations – and he has invited all his anti-American and criminal friends to join him in his endeavors to give America an unprecedented make-over which is leaving us militarily defenseless, and nearly economically destitute.
So far, everything Obama has done has truly alarmed most sentient American citizens on the Right and even some on the Left.
I have stated it long ago, and I fully concur with julianusrex – OBAMA MUST GO. The sooner the better.
Obama is not serving in the interests of our nation, but by all accounts and appearances he has made it obvious that he serves the interests of those who want America weakened and disabled. Period.
My question is – what more will it take and what are we waiting for?
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. -Psalm 104:32
Wait for the defense to raise waterboarding
johnt Friday, November 13th at 11:14AM EST (link)That’s when things will start to get more interesting. Let your mind wander on that one.
Judicial platitudes followed by, case dismissed ??
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
That's the whole idea. Then they let them go and blame BusHitler. nt
Achance (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:17AM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
Dollars to donuts says KSM calls Cheney as a witness
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:25AM EST (link)Just watch.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
That thought crossed my mind as well, Dan.
janis (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:36AM EST (link)Which just raises the next thought in line:
That this whole circus is being conducted this way to damn the Bush Administration through the testimony of KSM instead of through the DOJ going after the CIA and any others connected to interrogation techniques. That way they can say they didn’t start it, it was all a legitimate bit of fallout from the trial of this thug.
I wish it was October, 2012.
All the while this jihadi blames this country
antisocial (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 3:00PM EST (link)And yes I agree. This is trial of Bush administration(CIA/FBI/Lawyers) by proxy.
Do you hear Osama laughing in the cave?
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Sure, then President Bush, VP Cheney and many others
Achance (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:36AM EST (link)can be deposed with Comrade Obama’s federal prosecutors looking to play the perjury trap game with them. It is far more likely that members of the Bush Administration will face prison than any of these terrorists. I’m reasonably confident that all these guys will have their charges dismissed.
Anybody with a brain that has dealt with due process cases knows that it is impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube. You make an irrevocable decision when you determine the level of Constitutional and administrative process required. These guys were not “processed” as civilians entitled to US Constitutional protections; Holder et al. know that and that is why they’re putting them on trial in civilian court; they WANT the dismissal and the Blame Bush Moment.
In Vino Veritas
Achance, wouldn't former Bush administration
janis (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:49AM EST (link)people, certainly President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, have some sort of immunity from testifying? Anything having to do with national security secrets? Has there ever been a time when a former president has been forced to testify at a trial?
Out of my league, janis; don't know just what privileges
Achance (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 12:02PM EST (link)and immunities a former federal officeholder might have. I do know that federal prosecutors pretty notoriously play the immunity game. If you take the 5th or assert some sort of privilege, they just offer you immunity on that subject and your right to resist goes away. Then they play perjury trap with you.
I used to love to play immunity with union activists and stewards. You’d haul them in over something and they start yelling about wanting their union rep and refusing to talk until they got a BA. So, I’d just immunized them and then compel them to answer my questions without a union rep in the room. If you got lucky they’d refuse to answer anyway, so you just fired them for insubordination.
In Vino Veritas
In my wildest dreams, I never...
RedBeard Friday, November 13th at 11:20AM EST (link)…thought I would be nostalgic for the Carter years.
Dan, you were too easy on Obama. But then, an honest appraisal of Obama would seriously violate the “No Profanity” rule.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
An interesting point....the defense will, I believe, DEMAND that muslims be on the 'jury'
USNJIMRET (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:28AM EST (link)to muslims, ONLY a fellow muslim can be any kind of “peer”.
Again and again, as my thoughts develop and information is provided, insanity is all that comes to mind.
This IS insane.
And since Islam is the religon of peace,
gekster (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:34AM EST (link)they will convict him on his un-peacefull acts.
yea, right,
I wont hold my breath.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
supossed to be a reply to USNJIMRET
gekster (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 11:35AM EST (link)They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
0bama is a nightmare that I wish I could wake up from...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 1:06PM EST (link)who on earth thinks this is a great idea?
Lethal Injection?
Castor (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 1:14PM EST (link)I don´t know if the New York liberals on the jury will sentence him to death by a lethal injection ¨liberally¨saturated with pig´s blood, but they should.
This is an open invitation for an attack on NYC
DaMav Friday, November 13th at 1:22PM EST (link)by the Jihadists. Kind of a “bring it on” in liberalese.
In a more enlightened age...
furious (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 1:24PM EST (link)…the Geneva Convention entitled the Gitmo jokers to a blindfold and a cigarette after a duly convened drumhead court-martial.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
Terrorists Tried in U.S. Courts Trigger Constitutional Protections Strapped to Their Chests
melvinwinter Friday, November 13th at 2:07PM EST (link)http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/terrorists-tried-in-us-courts-trigger.html
Even Jon Stewart wants the b****** strung up
aesthete (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 2:18PM EST (link)Note to Pres. Obama: this isn’t that hard. If you want to be a good little anti-Bush President, try him under the UCMJ. There is not a single argument in favor of this idea, and I’m pretty d*** good at playing devil’s advocate. I’m sure that our Democratic Congress and their “moderate” enablers will come up with a narrative that show that Master really does love us, and has our best interests at heart in this instance.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
Why a Trial?
LeeH Friday, November 13th at 2:34PM EST (link)I thought these terrorist already pleaded guilty? If so, what is the purpose of a trial? Silly question.
purpose: to put George Bush on trial indirectly.
LISA BULLOCK-HOCK (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 4:10PM EST (link)They want to open the door to put CIA operatives on trial. Even maybe find a way to drag GW and Dick Cheney in too.
Cut, Cap, and Balance–Imagine that, living within your means. What a concept
Why don't more people be informed before they vote?
LISA BULLOCK-HOCK (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 3:35PM EST (link)This was not secret. Obama made no bones about it that secret tribunals were not what he believed in–he thought that terrorism should be viewed as a crime–not an act of war, and prosecuted in our criminal justice system. What Sarah Palin said in her acceptance speech about “reading terrorists their rights” is coming to fruition.
Of course, this joker terrorist is going to use this as a forum to torment victims families, and have ACLU lawyers arguing he should be released because he was tortured and any information he gave during that should be thrown out. The terrorists hate our way of life, but have no trouble using our own system against us. Because of idiots that think Americans and the United States America as a nation should apologize for our way of life, views, and George W. Bush to the world because we are so terrible, arrogant, or just the world thinks that we are mostly rednecks, with a few educated elites. Whatever.
While I don’t think GW was right on many things–his view of terrorism and system that was put in place, was the right thing to do, and still is the right thing to do.
Why is Eric Holder so quick to call America a “nation of cowards”, and so sympathetic to terrorists, is a total mystery to me. All of what George W. Bush and Dick Cheney put in place to gather intel and keep us safe has been undone. I think is sucks that Washington Liberal “do gooders” are gambling with my life and I get absolutely no say so.
Cut, Cap, and Balance–Imagine that, living within your means. What a concept
Dumb AND Dumber
reelman (Diary) Friday, November 13th at 3:44PM EST (link)DUMBEST DEM WORDS OF 2009 (so far)
Even topping demo-socialist Nancy Sillosy (aka the space cadet) is the angry kook AG Eric Holder…
he recently said publicly that KSMo will be judged by “a jury of his peers” in NYC for his crimes.
Just where are “his peers”? You mean other foreign suicidal jihadists with beheading experience?
This islamic nut is NOT even a citizen…dahhh.
Sometimes I am reminded daily that modern liberalism is a mental disorder.
Its also being suggested that this is a “backdoor” way to put the CIA “torture” under Bush on trial (shame America).
Their plea will change to “not guilty” by reason of torture (just said anything)…we are hearing now.
(No Miranda given, no supenoas, no actual witnesses…what a deliberate pointless lengthy expensive mess…remember O. J.)
Put nothing past the angry secular socialist kooks now ruling.
Did I mention 12 million illegals will get amnesty next year?
That is the next “re-form”…the demo-socialist kooks never rest.
(and you thought next year was only going to be huge new taxes on top of the 10+% jobless…gifts from J. Carter Obama)
http://conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish
“Ignore what is said, watch what is done”
The problem is congress…is congress…
Secular Socialism is never the answer…
“This is where we hold them, this is where we fight”
The “reelman” in central Louisiana