Our ethically-challenged Attorney General Eric Holder decided that it would be a great idea to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad to the United States to be tried. Well ... wait a minute. Let's get real here. It wasn't our pathetic Attorney General who made this decision .. it was the president; The Community Organizer. As the husband of a 9/11 victim said "Obama has transformed an act of war into a crime. And here comes KSL to New York City where he will get every protection our Constitution has to offer. Obama believes that the mastermind of 9/11 is nothing more than a criminal, rather than what he is really is: an Islamic goon, a terrorist, an enemy combatant, a prisoner of war. What we are seeing is the politics of the left trumping national security and common sense.
Just another reason to be so proud of those voters out there who fell for this "Change we can believe in" line. Here's your change: Acts of war become mere criminal acts.
Critics are concerned that this will quickly turn into a trial about Bush anti-terror policies, rather than the prosecution of a sick mastermind who killed 3,000 Americans. Rudy Giuliani says it best, "The government is going to try to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed on trial. Defense lawyers will try and put the government on trial." That is what we have to look forward to. Thank you, Oh Chosen One (mmm, mmm mmm) for providing these Islamic goons with the same liberties as the Americans they targeted. This trial will turn into nothing more than a dog-and-pony show for these Islamic killer. There is talk that KSM will act as his own legal representation. Why wouldn't he be? At this point, his goal is to be a martyr and he will chuckle inside knowing that Americans are willing to give him that platform.
Here's a possible scenario for you to consider: The politically correct crowd is going to come out in full force for the first part of the trial ... jury selection. The PC warriors are going to demand that there be Muslims on the jury. What if they succeed? What if the Muslim juror decides that there is no way he can vote to convict a warrior for Allah .. no matter what the evidence says. Oh sure, he can lie his turban off during jury selection and utter the right platitudes about reaching a fair verdict ... all the while knowing that he is going to do what any good Muslim would do .. protect a fellow Muslim from the wrath of the non-believers. Result? Hung jury. No conviction. And then where do we go?
Oh ... by the way. You do know that KSL was never read his Miranda Rights, don't you? How much evidence is going to be thrown out because this Islamic murderer didn't have his right to counsel when he was first captured?
Plenty of questions, aren't there? Try this one ... Then there's the pesky little question of ... is this even legal? Jamie Dupree points out the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 2647 that Barack Obama recently signed into law.
Just so you know, the Republican did TRY to prevent this from happening. House Republicans introduced legislation that would have prevented Gitmo detainees from coming to the United States. But because Democrats have a majority, they didn't even allow the legislation to move out of committee.