The al Qaeda terrorists who planned and executed the NYC and Pentagon attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 weren’t members of a sophisticated international crime ring. They were members of a worldwide terrorist group bent on destroying America and the West. They valued the senseless act of mass murder over the value of their own lives. Thousands of innocent people died and the Twin Towers collapsed.
The skyline of NYC changed forever and so did America.
But evidently not the Obama administration and its Justice Department under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder.
Never mind the executive order to shut down Guantanamo. Never mind the decision to investigate CIA agents involved in the application of EIT (Enhanced Interrogation Techniques). The jaw dropping announcement post War on Terror was this, from Eric Holder: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other terrorists are to stand trial in criminal court in the city they’d attacked.
The Left is happy-drunk with this Obama Kool-Aid added in a twist of Holder insanity. Is this really about justice or more jabs at President Bush? Be it a naivete in law or vendetta against GWB, the Attorney General has taken the first step into forever perverting the U.S. justice system. The decision to try the 9/11 mastermind in criminal court is nothing but for show, we might as well name it “Judge Holder” and air it during the afternoons after the soaps. In a way it’s President Obama and his friend again offering an apology to the world for what Bush had done.
Mr. Holder cannot even logically explain his position to a senator. Watch him squirm in the hot seat, acting like a first year law student who forgot to study for his exams. There are several problems with the Holder Decision:
- Sensitive and classified intelligence data may become public as the trial proceeds, open for anyone — including those who wish America harm — to peruse.
- Defining KSM a mere criminal gets him treatment as an U.S. citizen with Constitutional privileges: Miranda rights, speedy trial, jury of peers, etc. Since KSM was not read his Miranda rights, what evidence will be asked to be thrown out? And can you imagine what the makeup of the jury would be?
- KSM was being tried in a military commission before President Obama halted all Gitmo trials. The terrorist had indeed pleaded guilty and requested to be executed. In other words, he’d confessed to the 9/11 attacks. But now as the trial moves to NYC, he plans to plead not guilty so he can demean the court, the U.S., and the victims when he has everyone’s attention.
- What if in the unlikely scenario that KSM is acquitted? He deserves to be a free man then according to our justice system. Yet Holder promises that: 1) KSM will be found guilty; and 2) KSM can never be a free man. In that sense, is Holder unjustly influencing the court before a trial and making his own unfair rules?
- As the Pentagon was also attacked, it was by definition an act of war since that was a military target. It is absurd to even consider them as common criminals.
More importantly, it’s impossible for KSM to receive a fair trial in NYC or anywhere in America. No way. Military commissions were set up specifically to deliver justice to enemy combatants to ensure fairness without compromising national security. The civil justice system is simply unfit to prosecute such a case. Eric Holder is out of his mind, and Americans will literally pay for it.
The Holder Decision has already sparked outrage among 9/11 families. I urge you to support them. KSM may deserve justice, but he does not deserve a step onto New York soil.
