None of us saw this coming when Holder announced that KSM and the other 9/11 jihadis would get trials in civilian court in New York City just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, eh?
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Seriously, anyone with an IQ about 40 could have seen that this would happen. What’s Obama and Holder’s excuse? Or do they want the Islamic terrorists to view their criticisms? We know the hard Left tends to hate America and blames the U.S.A. for the world’s ills.
I’m betting Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as those who worked in their administration aren’t real pleased. Guess who is going to get a bucketful of the blame?
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”
So, they are going to plead not guilty, but, here we have their lawyer saying “they say they did it”? Well, they did already try and plead guilty to a military commission, but pulled those pleas back when they realized they wouldn’t get their soap boxes. Fortunately, there was Obama and Holder to provide them with cargo containers to stand on and hold forth.
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express their views, “we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disrupton, as federal courts have done in the past.”
For Obama and Holder’s sake, Boyd better be right. I doubt that the American people, excepting those on the Hard Left, will enjoy or appreciate what the terrorists will have to say, and there will be some nastiness heading Obama and Holder’s way.
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His right to free speech is guaranteed under the Constitution.
Really. An NON CITIZEN of our country, who attacked our country, who works with people who want to destroy our country and kill everyone in our country, gets OUR Constitutional rights.
Wow, that whole exposure of the climate farce has REALLY thrown you for a loop, hasn’t it?
KSM and the other scum who attacked us have NO RIGHTS under the Constitution. They are not citizens of our country, they are captured enemy combatants. They neither have nor SHOULD have the same rights and privileges afforded to those of us who are ACTUAL citizens.
By bringing them to criminal court, Holder and Obama are conferring US citizen status on them, just like Amnesty. Because of Obama’s gaffe, they may well walk because his words, as President, casts doubt on the whether or not they will get a fair trial. There is also the Miranda issue, as well as the type of warrants used, and interrogation; all of which could get this case thrown out and free these confessed murderers.
Get a damn clue, John.
No, he doesn’t, John. He is not an American citizen. But, hey, thanks to President Neophyte, he will have his soapbox to denigrate America. We know you folks on the left like to take the position of whomever is hating on America.
Well said, TFMo.
This is what I don’t understand. How can you plead not guilty, and then turn around and admit your guilt?
As I understand it, they are admitting they did the killing, but claiming it’s not a crime. Or something. Or maybe it’s just their way of copping an insanity plea.
Personally, I think that as soon as we got all the info we needed out of them, they should have been shot. Be done with it. And I’m not buying that namby-pamby “we cant’ do that or they’ll do it to our people they captured” crap. These animals do REAL torture, then start chopping off body parts…while we feed their people fifty dollar meals a day and can’t even raise our voices to them. Screw ’em.