To the editor:
As the politicians cower under their desks in Washington, we are being told by them that it is undesirable to transport the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States for trial. The one thing they, our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., do not understand is that we must bring them to the United States for trial.
We must to show the world and the jihadists that we are made of sterner stuff, that we will use our legal system to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to an American court, to allow American justice, an American jury, on American soil, in front of the world population, that we do not fear the jihadists and that we will not be intimidated into hiding our legal system on foreign soil.
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smitty (anonymous) says…
Yes sirree bob, our justice system is the best in the world.
So much so that the supreme court now has a case to consider that is against corrupt federal prosecutors who frame the innocent as common practice.
Justices weigh lawsuits against prosecutors
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washingt…
So corrupt that an ex-federal judge speaks out on the corrupt system.
federal judge says legal system corrupt beyond recognition.
http://www.msfraud.org/law/lawarticle…
So corrupt that Napoliano explains how America's judicial system is corrupt, including the co-opted participation from the federal level to the local level.
Napolitano: How the Government Breaks the Law
http://www.federalobserver.com/archiv…
This justice system in America is what you reference.
merrill (anonymous) says…
Bruce on the surface I do agree with you.
However so so many many remarks have been made against the people involved, in reality it is impossible for any still living to get a fair trial. President GW Bush,the man who dropped the ball, had one of the loudest most public mouths about the criminals associated.
A military court is NOT public enough for a crime committed in New York city. The culprits were not military but represented a small band violent angry people.
I say try them in a world court if not federal court.
It would be interesting to discover how many ways the president and his Nat'l Security Advisor dropped the ball and why. These 15 crimnals, of which the majority were from Saudi Arabia, managed to live but a few blocks away from Gen Hayden and NSA headquarters. The FBI never received the green light to pursue them.
temperance (anonymous) says…
smitty, is there another country whose justice system we should embrace instead of our own? Why do you hate America and its institutions?
SettingTheRecordStraight (anonymous) says…
I'm predicting guilty verdicts just ahead of the 2010 elections.
75x55 (anonymous) says…
"I'm predicting guilty verdicts just ahead of the 2010 elections."
Well, since the pronouncement of guilty verdicts has already been made, what's the point of these civilian kangaroo courts anyway, except to further embarrass the US?
Are there Bush-haters out there whose votes haven't already been bought? Enough to make any difference in 2010 or 2012? Robespierre may yet fall from his mountain...
smitty (anonymous) says…
temperance, presumably you are also disparaging the supreme court justices, a federal judge and Napoliano who criticises the system. Our system is failing in major ways. The most honest of us prefer to address that failure, not run or hide our heads in the sand. I'm being kind, that's not where I believe you hide your head.
Surely no one is really that naive to believe justice will be served in this political fiasco? Action will be taken, but justice served?
temperance (anonymous) says…
The Supreme Court has ruled twice that civilian criminal courts are the only way "justice will be served." How was "justice served" by holding suspected criminals indefinitely without trial? That's what they do in Iran. Only a tiny percent of the suspects have been tried in military tribunals. Is that justice served?
I'm pretty confident our justice system will try and successfully convict the most despised criminals since the Manson family. Again, to suggest KSM et. al. need some other justice system modeled after foreign dictatorships is dumb and unAmerican.
75x55 (anonymous) says…
The Supreme Court is made up of fallible persons, and is only one part of the separated powers of government. Take care when you ascribe to them the attributes of governmental omnipotence.
The o-holy 'Supreme Court' didn't always have said opinion. And for those that appear to be un-skeptical of the SCOTUS, were you always that way? Say, back during the post-election festivities of 2000/2001?
cait48 (anonymous) says…
Why can't these people be taken to the Hague and tried in the World Court? What's wrong with that?
vertigo (Jesse Crittenden) says…
Merrill says...
However so so many many remarks have been made against the people involved, in reality it is impossible for any still living to get a fair trial.
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If Saddam Hussein can get a fair trial in Iraq then KSM can get a fair trial in the U.S.
jason2007 (anonymous) says…
The World Court....people truly have lost their grip with reality.
The crime was committed on US Soil. The crime was committed against us, not France, not Germany, not Russia. Why in God's name would we say, "This is a world issue"? I simply do not understand liberal progressives.
This is our problem and the insult was against our blood. It is our justice to deal out. No one else.
I do not recall any nations other than the victors and vanquished in Nuremburg. I do not recall any nations other than the victors and vanquished at Versailles.
Why then would we call in a "World Court" (whatever that means) to try these idiots?
If America were ran by many on this thread, Obama would not only bow everytime he ran into a despotic leader...he'd bend over and grab the ankles.