So The Great Pretender has decided not only to close Gitmo and move the terrorist prisoners there to Illinois - his home state, so why not create jobs where you came from, right? - but he's also made the downright stupid decision to put the 9/11 attack masterminds on public trial in New York City.
Of all the stupid things this man has done since he was inaugurated, I think this is the stupidest one. His lack of leadership abilities and inexperience is showing more and more as time goes on...and we won't even talk about his practice of bowing to every head of state of every other nation in the friggin' world like a good little subordinate should.
Not now, anyway....
But back to the topic at hand.
As I see it, there are three major problems with putting these terrorist assholes on public trial in New York City instead of putting them on trial in a military tribunal on a military installtion. In no specific order of priority, they are:
1. A public trial gives the defendents and their supporters the public platform they want.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that these defendants are going to take the stand in their own defense, and when they do you can bet that they're going to spread their message of hate and murder and terror for as long as they have the opportunity to open their mouths. And the news media, specifically the lapdog of the NObama administration, CNN, will broadcast every single word of it to everyone that will listen, worldwide. This will serve to motivate and embolden all of the terrorist cells out there into doing just what they do best - murder innocents.
And in addition to the outbursts from the defendants inside the courtroom, you can bet on having public demonstrations by every radical Islamic asshole on the Eastern Seaboard taking place on the streets outside the courtroom as well - and this, too, will be covered and broadcast worldwide by the news media.
If the trial were being held in a military tribunal on a military installation, the proceedings DO NOT have to be made pubic, and the media can - and would - be blocked from attending and broadcasting it. There would be no public stage for the terrorists at all, and that's how it should be.
2. Security both inside and outside the courthouse is going to be a nightmare.
There is no way that adequate security is going to be able to be established and maintained in a public trial location - absolutely no way. I'd be willing to bet that a few days into the proceedings, a suicide bomber makes his presence known outside of the courthouse in the public streets by blowing himself and those around him up, thus taking a bad situation and making it worse.
If the trial were held on a military installation, security would be nearly guaranteed. The closest any terrorist would get to the trial location would be the entrance gate; there's no way they'd get past the gate and the troops stationed there. Additionally, the US Army has a much better capability to provide adequate troops and equipment for security than the NYPD does. Nothing against the NYPD, but they just don't have either the manpower nor the payroll nor the equipment to put up and maintain the kind of security this public trial is going to demand.
3. The sources of evidence obtained by confidential intelligence means are going to be compromised, which will result in someone - or many someones - getting murdered.
Any and all evidence presented in a pubic trial is open to full and complete disclosure - in other words, you have to tell the court where and how you obtained the evidence, and you can't cite "national security" to avoid it. Lots of the evidence being used against these terrorist assholes was obtained by confidential intelligence means, the compromising of which could and would endanger national security and the ability of the intelligence community to continue their work. And once the sources of this information is revealed, the lives of the sources can be measured in hours, if not minutes. This would do irreparable harm to our intelligence community and their ability to function in the rest of the world.
If the trial is a military tribunal, the identities of the sources and the means by which the evidence was obtained can be protected from disclosure to the public. The tribunal judge will ensure that all evidence is admitted legally and was obtained legally, but he will also ensure that the confidentiality of both the means and the sources is protected. A civilian judge in a civilian courtroom during a pubic trial cannot do this since he must abide by civilian laws and the US Constitution.
The magnitude of the disaster awaiting our nation once this public trial gets underway scares the living hell out of me. I simply cannot believe that NObama would be so utterly stupid and unbelieveably naive to think that nothing but bad could come out of this public trial.
I just hope too many people don't die because our elected President is a fuckin' moron.
IHC
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Both OB and his Atty General have publicly stated they are confident that there will be convictions in these trials which pretty much guarantees taht these trials will be a circus since the cheif exec and the chief attorney have guaranteed a kangaroo court. And lib media journalists get on TV every day and expound on how this is going to showcase the US justice system which is already a standing joke in the international community.
As for your comment on NObama bowing to the heads of state, I was startled to see him in a deep bow before the Japanese emporer. Now in Japan, such a bow is one of subservience and is one of a person more or less begging for mercy. It insulted the Japanese people. And I was outraged. I seem to recall that WE won WWII. My Dad fought against the emporer of Japan and his armies and suffered time away from his home and family, wounds from battle, and all of the discomforts of war, and our president grovels before the Japanese leader as if THEY won and we owe them an apology. Bullshit. My poor dad won't be done spinning in his box for another 3 years.
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