It's sad that the fight is with our own government over something that doesn't have to happen. 9/11 families and many other Americans are outraged by Obama/Holder's decision to try the 9/11 terrorists in a civilian trial. A protest is planned in NYC on Saturday, December 5. Check out 9/11 Never Forget, Keep America Safe, 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, and Atlas Shrugs for information.
This will break your heart:
Daniel Pearl's dad is sickened by Obama's 9/11 trial decision
The father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl slammed the Obama administration's decision to hold a public trial for admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed -- who boasted of killing his son in Pakistan.Judea Pearl said he was "sick to the stomach" when he heard that the Justice Department decided to prosecute Mohammed in Manhattan federal court.
"I don't want to hear every morning in the papers what KSM did," Pearl told The Post last night. "Danny was killed once. Now he will be killed 10 times a day. Leave him alone."
John Bolton doesn't want his family in NYC during the trial and sees this decision as more proof of the Obama administration's ineptitude and lack of commitment to fighting terrorism:
Host Melanie Morgan: Given the nature and danger of bringing these terrorists to American soil, where do you think is the most safe place to be when they get here and this trial begins? Where would you put your family?Most recent posts here.
John Bolton: Well, not New York City, I'm afraid to say. This is part of the callousness and the really, lack of professionalism and judgment to put them on trial anywhere in the United States in civilian courts. It's a major strategic blunder. It will give Khalid Sheik Mohammad and his co-defendants an opportunity, a la Joseph Stalin, to put on their own show trial in New York. This time it won't be the prosecution conducting the show trial, it will be the defense. Again, it shows the administration is not serious about the war on terrorism. It's a pre-9/11 law enforcement paradigm rather than the paradigm of a global war on terrorism which I think the Bush administration correctly adopted with near-unanimous support in this country after 9/11.
Minor point: Daniel Pearl didn't die on 9/11.
ReplyDeleteLarger point: We don't capture, try and imprison people on behalf of the victims. We do it because it's the right thing to do. We are a nation of laws.
Whatever is done to the 9/11 plotters, the pain of the 9/11 victims will not go away. The idea that endless, lawless detention is somehow a better solution makes you wonder what kind of America the conservatives would like to create.
The Obama administration is (regrettably) not putting all of our prisoners into the criminal system - so the attempt at following our legal principles is pretty weak - but it is a larger step that Pres. Bush was willing to make.
John Bolton is an ignorant windbag who sees "near unanimous support" in the unbroken chain of Supreme Court reversals of his hero's policy. Bolton would have vengeance trump law - and that's about as far from American ideals as you can get.
"Minor point: Daniel Pearl didn't die on 9/11." Um, no kidding.
ReplyDelete"Whatever is done to the 9/11 plotters, the pain of the 9/11 victims will not go away." You know better than the grieving families? Wow.
I'm sorry, you're suggesting that there is some policy that the government can adopt that will bring their loved ones back to life?
ReplyDeleteOr that if KSM and co were kept some kind of extra-legal incommunicado that 9/11 families would magically forget the trauma of having their loved ones die?
I don't presume to know better than 9/11 families. But having lost a loved one suddenly and violently - I can say from experience there isn't a damn thing the government could do to change anything.
Some things just don't get better.