There is no way the media can ignore Holder's controversial decision to try 911 conspirators in New York courts. Don't expect them them to cover the pressure behind the scenes that made it happen though. Don't expect them to hold Obama to his past opinions either.
Much has been written over the past 24 hours that does well to explain why the Obama regime's despicable decision to bestow unprecedented constitutional protections on those whose only connection to America is that they have directed the incineration of thousands of our innocent countrymen or worked not quite as "successfully" for the same or worse.
So, I can't really add much of substance in commenting on the news itself. A sampling of those: Smack Down of Obama Administration on KSM Trial Decision And guess who celebrates this as some sort of victory for "justice?" It's no secret that the greatest threats to America on the international stage can depend on the ACLU's extended hand of friendship. The ACLU, as the most dangerous threat to this country from within, has long been writhing around passionately with every enemy of this country like mating slugs at the end of a mucus thread.
That the ACLU not only cheers this latest attack on American national security is no surprise. After all, they are up to their ear holes in making sure KSM and Da Boyz get sprung, although the MSM seems to be ignoring the ACLU role. Jay wrote last year at PJM about the execrable "John Adams Project" that undoubtedly played a lead role in securing three hots and a cot for KSM while he awaits his circus trial:
The ACLU has launched an initiative called the “John Adams Project.”…What is it? In a nutshell, the ACLU has assembled a “Dream Team” of attorneys with an $8.5 million budget to defend terrorists currently held at Guantanamo. Who’s the primary object of the ACLU’s affection? Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
The ACLU, true to form, impugns the professionalism and competence of men and women of infinitely more honor than their accusers by referring to tribunals as “kangaroo courts.” But could the ACLU really be so scandalized that this mass murderer will stand before a military tribunal? Could the ACLU truly be standing up for his “fundamental rights?” What is the true purpose of a multi-million-dollar campaign to get KSM off the hook?
The ACLU explains: “The ACLU chose to focus on Mohammed’s defense, Romero said, because he appears to be “the government’s top priority in the prosecution. And whether or not they are able to convict Khalid Sheik Mohammed under these rules may well determine the fate of the almost 300 other men who are detained at Guantanamo.”
So that’s it. The ACLU wants to set KSM and 300 other terrorists free or at least make it impossible for the tribunals to serve their function. Because KSM is the worst of the worst, because he is the terrorist in custody most responsible for 9/11, the ACLU is his champion.
This PR stunt can only serve to undermine American credibility by creating the illusion – sure to be propagated by the mass media – that mass killers are somehow being denied “justice.” Think our enemies don’t appreciate the ACLU’s efforts on their behalf – on both legal and the PR fronts? Clearly, this will leave America more vulnerable to attack.
So is it really any surprise that the ACLU would be reaching around to pat itself on the back yesterday?
NEW YORK – In a major victory for due process and the rule of law, the Obama administration will announce today that the five defendants represented by the John Adams Project who have been charged in connection with the 9/11 attacks will be tried in federal court rather than in the Guantánamo military commissions.
However, the administration will also announce that it will continue to use the illegitimate military commissions system to prosecute some Guantánamo detainees, including the defendant accused in the attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been working through the Project, a joint effort with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), to provide legal assistance to the five individuals accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks and other military commissions defendants. The Guantánamo military commissions proceedings have been plagued from the start with legal challenges and international condemnation due to their disregard for basic due process rights.
“The transfer of cases to federal court is a huge victory for restoring due process and the rule of law, as well as repairing America’s international standing, an essential part of ensuring our national security. We can now finally achieve the real and reliable justice that Americans deserve. It would have been an enormous blow to American values if we had tried these defendants in a process riddled with legal problems,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU.
“However, it’s disappointing that the administration has chosen to prosecute some Guantánamo detainees in the unsalvageable military commissions system. Time and again the federal courts have proven themselves capable of handling terrorism cases while protecting both American values and sensitive national security information. Justice can only be served in our tried and true courts.”
This just didn’t seem to smell right, so I ran it through Babel Fish (translating from ACLUgandan to English) and here’s what came out:
BIZARRO CITY – In a major legal and propaganda victory for al Qaeda, the Obama administration will announce today that the five demented killers represented by the John Alan Muhammad Memorial Project who were responsible for the slaughter of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans will await acquittal in federal court by Leftists in New York rather than standing before the incompetent troglodytes who “serve” our country in the Armed Forces…
The American Civil Liberties Union has been working through the Project, a joint conspiracy with the National Association of Criminals Disguised as Lawyers (NACDL), to provide legal assistance to the five individuals who’ve blessed us with the glorious 9/11 holiday. The Guantánamo military commissions are staffed by drooling fools in odd uniforms with weird oak leaved, eagles and stars on their shoulders and collars and who are despised by our international comrades.
“The transfer of cases to federal court is a huge victory for al Qaeda and is sure to threaten our national security. We can now finally achieve the real and reliable justice that Americans deserve, but we think should be applied to international terrorists, who until now have never in history been granted the constitutional rights that were once reserved for American citizens. It would have been an enormous blow to ACLU self-esteem and fundraising if we had tried these murderous thugs in a process that actually would have resulted in justice being done,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU.
“However, it’s disappointing that the administration has chosen to prosecute some terrorists using those idiots with really short haircuts. Time and again the federal courts have proven themselves willing to advance the ACLU agenda, truth, justice and national security be damned. This has us just tickled pink.”
As diabolical as this latest move by the Obamanable Administration is, even more demented is the symbolism of trying Mohammed mere steps away from the site of the greatest act of evil -- an act of war, not the street crime the Obamanable Administration is treating it like -- ever committed against America on our own soil. Miles, or even blocks, away from the husbands, wives, children, mothers and fathers who were left behind to mourn because of the act of terrorism directed by the very man who has now been extended all the protections of the American constitutional system by virtue of nothing but robbing so many innocent Americans of the same, forever.
—John Stephenson is editor of Stop The ACLU.



















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All bets are off...
November 15, 2009 - 02:14 ET by AgentAmericanI have been waiting for Obama and his pals to make the one act of stupidity that will tilt the country back to the right...permanently. Perhaps this wouldn't come until after the midterm elections.
Obama is far more incoherent that I could possibly imagine.
There is nothing else you can say.
Awake the sleeping giant...and that giant is WE THE PEOPLE!
I'm sickened by the whole
November 15, 2009 - 02:28 ET by rbosqueI'm sickened by the whole thing. Whoe needs enemies when you have the ACLU?
If KSM and the Funky Bunch
November 15, 2009 - 03:09 ET by hurricane567If KSM and the Funky Bunch are in the custody of the US Army, what right does the AG have to tell them to turn them over? If the Army's last orders were from GWB and they said "blah blah blah military tribunal", doesen't BHO have to issue another order that says "forget that, hand them over"? Didn't that GWB order come down after a vote at the House/Senate? Do we have to go back to get anthother vote? If you cant figure out what i'm angling for here, i'd really, really like poster sized copies of both the Congressional stuff and the order with Barry's scrawl on it. I figure if Rush can get $2.1 million for his nasty letter from the Senate, i can get $10 a pop for those posters :-P
If this bunch get off on
November 15, 2009 - 05:55 ET by motherbeltIf this bunch get off on technicalities of any kind, it will be the end of Obama and his whole bunch.
And yet, I still would not hope for that outcome. Heaven help me, I have to hope that this President's plan succeeds.
The military commissions are obviously constitutional because Congress instituted them and that power is vested in them.
Doesn't matter. We are arriving at a point where the Constitution can be declared "unconstitutional."
The other day, Blonde suggested that we need a new word for galactically naive and stupid.
I suggested "Obamic."
I think that fits right in with "Obamanable."
Good morning MB
November 15, 2009 - 08:12 ET by Paul Gbut IF he gets off on a technicality, we all know the L(lame)SM will circle the wagons around the messiah.
But as a side note....I'm really thinking about the 2012 thing.... and you? and I don't mean the elections lol I've havent read any posts of yours concerning.....
Seriously
November 15, 2009 - 05:56 ET by MOONSTRUCKHow did such an anti American get elected president of our Great Country? I think I have an idea. The signs of this "mans" character were everywhere prior to election day, and yet here we sit.........
Please don't get me wrong, I was not a big GW fan the last two years. But if I am not mistaken, didn't the $hit hit the fan around the same time we received our wonderful demorat congress????
~sigh~
I wish some one would pop a few rounds in KSM and his fellow murderers. Trial over.
anything good
November 15, 2009 - 06:15 ET by spepperif anything good were to come from a US criminal trial of the detainees, it would be the documentation of the timeline of them running around loose in the United States, during the time of the administration PRIOR to George W Bush's.........and the factfinding of that specific timeline and why NOTHING was done about them then....... oh that's right......they were too busy getting "pizza deliveries" from White House interns...........
What was he thinking?
November 15, 2009 - 07:01 ET by CatherwoodAll this talk about the trials has made me think about that moment in time when antimilitary types like BarryO and Holder first heard about the attacks of 9-11. I would bet that neither of them felt a scintilla of sympathy for America that day. I would bet that both of them saw the horror as a victory for the underdog or as the Rev. Wright, Bary's mentor, saw it, 'the chickens had come home to roost. I would be that both of them felt that America was finally taught a lesson. Barry doesn't care about Americans as much as he cares about Muslims....you can see that in the Ft. Hood case, you can see that in his Guantanamo decisions. Moving the trials of these terrorists to NY gives Muslims another victory. Barry knows that; Holder knows that, but it's the way they want things. They want America to be taught a lesson; they want to punish America for all its sins. That's what they think justice is.
Anyone? in media or
November 15, 2009 - 07:18 ET by EdhenryAnyone? in media or government rooting for & protecting the US?
O-zilla Eats America
November 15, 2009 - 07:33 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsI still say Obama is looking for the right excuse to declare Martial Law and be done with elections and the Constitution. If this trial causes an attack, either by muslim murderers (man-caused disasters) or by relatives of 9/11 victims against the defendants (domestic terrorists), I can see Obama using that as an excuse to shut down the rule of law and start rounding up his 'enemies'. Yes, I think his ego is so big that he thinks he must become Ruler For Life, to benefit mankind.
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Relax...
November 15, 2009 - 10:28 ET by AgentAmericanIf Obama even thinks about Martial Law, it will be the end of him. We won't let him. Period. Neither will 75% of the military. He's too stupid to run anything. He's already botched his chances of becoming a dictator.
Awake the sleeping giant...and that giant is WE THE PEOPLE!
Trials...
November 15, 2009 - 07:44 ET by adamsmithIf these Islamic murderers get off on a technicality, it'll show the Obama administration exactly for what they are- the Keystone Kops of American politics. No matter where I go, or who I talk to, people of all types say this President needs to resign before he is impeached for sedition and treason. He's killing America one day at a time. He's far deadlier to our Republic than any Islamic Jihadist could ever dream of. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, mmmm, mmm, mmmmm................
ACLU - "We can now
November 15, 2009 - 08:55 ET by chessplayerACLU - "We can now finally achieve the real and reliable justice that Americans deserve."
And in the ACLU`s view, that real and reliable justice Americans deserve is for KSM to be set free to plot another 9/11. Think the O.J. Simpson trial was a 3-ring circus? The KSM trial (whenever it takes place) will make the Simpson trial look like a yawner. And when and if it takes place, it won`t be about 9/11. It will be about waterboarding, Bush, etc. Hate to say it, but the prosecution might as well give up and walk away now. Because there is no way in hell Obama and other libs will allow KSM to be found guilty. He is going to be declared innocent, set free, and paid reparations to boot.
The ACLU's arguments are
November 15, 2009 - 12:38 ET by BDThe ACLU's arguments are folly in the extreme, and possibly intended to be so.
If memory serves me, in 1996 Osama Bin Laden speaking as the leader of the nascent AQ organization declared war on the United States of America.
THus, we have been at war with his organization since that time.
One can make the argument that by subjecting his minions to civil law and potential punishment rather than appropriate military legal channels we have violated international law as proscribed by the conventions we have signed.
THus we will be open to sanction from international courts and tribunals that the left seems to be so concerned about.
Conversly Imagine if John McCain in 1967 were tried by a civil court in Haiphong for his actions that the local court decided were "Sky Piracy." He could have been legally executed by that court, but by international military standards he was not.
THus, from now on any of our soldiers captured anywhere can by precedent be turned over to local civil legal tribunals rather than follow the conventions and stay in military channels.
That by ITSELF can be grounds for appeal for these mutts and I bet the friggin ACLU files the suit.
THe real intention of the ACLU in this case is to damage their enemies - conservatives.
the detainees at GITMO are-
November 15, 2009 - 08:59 ET by JIMMY1660like little "Angels" ask the guards how well behaved they are!! eyes open at all times, no telling what might be thrown at you.
the prison guards in NYC-will get a very rude awakening.
the court officers as well.
The ACLU exists only with the monies they extort yes extort from victims they target.they rally around the rule of law, and do not care about the Constitution.
Their time is coming.
BHO- THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE
"Anyone? in media or
November 15, 2009 - 09:02 ET by chessplayer"Anyone? in media or government rooting for & protecting the US?"
The only media outlet I`m aware of is FoxNews.
Not Bloomberg
November 15, 2009 - 12:22 ET by Dan DiegoHe's all for a NYC trial. I think he and the unions are salivating over all the funds they can get their greedy hands on from the Fed for NYPD, NYFD overtime and a multitude of other city agencies.
Photoshop
November 15, 2009 - 09:13 ET by BKeyserI'm linking this one again in this thread because it applies (I linked it yesterday, late) but I think the ACLU deserves some "imaging" as well. Any ideas?
Past Opinions
November 15, 2009 - 10:48 ET by easygoerSpeaking of past opinions:
"One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to
have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future
plans might be, where other cells are located. Under the Geneva
Convention … you are really limited in the amount of information that
you can elicit from people.
"It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted
themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the
protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war.
"If, for instance, Mohamed Atta had survived the attack on the World
Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think
not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I
think not."
Eric Holder__CNN Jan. 2002
Welcome to NYC
November 15, 2009 - 10:55 ET by slickwillie2001Kind of makes you wonder where truth ends and parody takes over:
Progressive Groups to Honor KSM With NYC Ticker-Tape Parade: http://directorblue.blogspot.com
"A wide range of progressive groups, including MoveOn.org, the ACLU, Code Pink, Media Matters, the SEIU, ACORN, Families USA, Nation of Islam, the AFT and the NEA, have banded together to welcome accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad to the Big Apple. The groups intend to welcome his motorcade, conducted by federal law enforcement officials, with a ticker-tape parade, a staple of New York City celebrations."
Slick, that's not funny.
November 15, 2009 - 12:49 ET by ThisnThatSlick, that's not funny. Don't joke about these things -- you'll give them ideas, LOL.
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