Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families discusses the betrayal of America by Comrade Obama...
9/11 Plotters May Walk
Liberalism’s theories often sound good to the uninformed. But when liberals are in power and attempt to govern with those theories, the public usually wakes up. Here’s a good example. During the campaign, Barack Obama sounded like he had the moral high ground on Guantanamo Bay, claiming that the terrorist prison there violated our values. He vowed to close Gitmo and to try the terrorist thugs in civilian courts. Today the administration made good on half of that promise – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 conspirators are headed to New York City to be treated like American citizens and tried in civilian courts.
I guarantee you two things: First, these thugs will get the best legal counsel that the ACLU can provide. In fact, I bet high profile criminal attorneys will line up for the “honor” of defending these thugs against the United States. Second, the trial will be a persecution of conservatives. It will be the Left’s chance to put Bush and Cheney on trial; to put the CIA’s officers under oath and its practices under scrutiny; to convict and condemn the national security policies that kept America safe after 9/11.
In spite of the terrorists’ defiant confessions, there is a very real chance that Mohammed and the other 9/11 terrorists may walk on technicalities. Not the least of which may be the fact that they were subject to waterboarding, which President Obama has publicly called “torture.” The decision is another sad example of this administration’s pre-9/11 mindset.
Here’s some bi-partisan reaction to the news:
- Senator John Cornyn (R-TX): “These terrorists planned and executed the mass murder of thousands of innocent Americans. Treating them like common criminals is unconscionable.”
- Rep. Peter King (R-NY): “This, I think, will go down as one of the worst decisions any president has ever made.”
- Tim Brown, a former New York City firefighter: “The only thing they are going to do is give them a stage to mock us ... and this makes me sick to my stomach.”
- Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT): “The terrorists who planned, participated in, and aided the September 11, 2001 attacks are war criminals, not common criminals. Not only are these individuals not common criminals but war criminals, they are also not American citizens entitled to all the constitutional rights American citizens have in our federal courts. The individuals accused of committing these heinous, cowardly acts … should therefore be tried by military commission rather than in civilian courts in the United States.”
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