So we are going to take 9/11 terrorist and bring them to "justice" under the most screwed up judicial system in the developed world? You can see the next set of moves as plain as day:
- Islamic terrorists get best jewish lawyers in New York
- They show up wearing nice western clothes
- They claim innocence and their lawyers claim evidence against them as inadmissible because it was obtained using some harsh tactics
- They plead guilty to destruction of property
- They serve 10 years and 2 yeas later are returned to middle east as part of a hijacking deal behind the scenes
Hello? Have we lost the will to live? have we collectively lost any sign of a backbone?
I hope not. I hope that this will trigger the people who have been uncertain about Obama to see the man for what he is: Dangerous Demagogue and Dilettante. Up to now his decisions, while misguided, have been consistent with what he sold to his supporters (even if they didn't always understand what he was selling). This one breaks that pattern. It is an incredible blunder, obvious for being such from the start. And the Friday delivery of this idea by one Eric Holder (who has built a career on pardoning terrorists) while Obama is in Japan, makes it cowardly and smelly.
For a flavour of the US Military Base issue, here's an interesting ground level view of old wounds in Okinawa - the sort of thing that must be addressed for progress...
http://www.counterpunch.com/mitchell11132009.html
Posted by: henry hope | November 14, 2009 at 07:23 AM