This morning, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the admitted mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would be brought to New York for a civilian trial.
So, congratulations Americans, all of the constitutional protections normally afforded U.S. citizens have just been granted to a foreign, mass-murdering war criminal.
It seems that, according to the increasingly out-of-touch Obama a foreign terrorist leader who murdered 3,000 Americans, deserves exactly the same judicial process as a college kid who steals a six-pack from 7 Eleven.
That he has been granted a civilian trial means that, in Barack Obama’s legal opinion, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is currently innocent. He must be convicted by a jury of his peers. Of course, that begs the question: how many peers could a non-citizen terrorist leader, who attacked the United States, possibly have here?
He is protected by the Miranda clause, so let’s hope the soldiers who captured him in 2003 read him his rights, and he’ll be protected by the chain of evidence, so they’d better have some proof other than his confession, which even the weakest New York defense attorney would claim was coerced.
Make no mistake. A trial like this could take years, and will offer this man ample opportunity to rally his network of terrorists, communicate with them through his lawyer, mock his victims and their families, and possibly even achieve acquittal.
Once again, Obama has completely ignored the will of the people who, according to polls, are overwhelmingly opposed to the Gitmo closure, and do not want foreign combatants like Mohammed brought to the U.S. for trial. More disturbing, however, is that from a legal standpoint, the President views Mohammed’s crimes no differently than he would any other crime committed in the United States.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is not a citizen. He is not a uniformed member of a standing army and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention. He is a war criminal who should have been convicted by a military tribunal, taken out back, and put down like an animal. Nuremberg should have been the template here, not the O.J. Simpson trial.
Obviously, your President disagrees.
7 fukking years of college down the draingl
