9/11 Families Urge Americans to "Raise Your Voice" Against Trying Terrorists in NYC

Here is a new video showing 9/11 families denouncing plans by the Obama Administration to try the 9/11 terrorists - including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - in civilian court in New York City. The family members of those who perished on September 11 are raising their voices in indignation against giving the terrorists the rights of U.S. Citizens, and trying them in civilian court, instead of trying them as enemy combatants before military tribunals.

The video urges citizens to "Raise Your Voice" by calling Congress and telling them to "not try terrorists in NYC." . . . (VIDEO)

Gitmo Terror Suspects to Use Court for Propaganda

We can thank Attorney General Eric Holder.

Supposedly making his decision without breathing a word to his boss, we now have five purported terrorists coming to stand trial in a New York City courtroom for the 9/11 attacks.

According to a lawyer for one of the defendants, the former Gitmo prisoners plan to plead not guilty.

What’s the reason? So they can do just what we knew they would — attack U.S. foreign policy by using the courtroom as a propaganda platform.

Scott Fenstermaker is Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali’s attorney, an individual for whom we must now use the word “alleged” before applying the terrorist label.

Ali, who is also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of the purported 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Fenstermaker told the New York Times that Mohammed, Ali, and the others plan to explain “their assessment of American foreign policy.”

“Their assessment is negative,” he said.

Don’t be surprised if, as the criminal prosecution develops and Mohammed and company demand that their case be transferred over to Judge Judy.

CHANGING THE SUBJECT: WHY O NIXED FT. HOOD PROBE
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on November 16, 2009

As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.” Yet, even as he was posturing against political theatrics, he had just decided that the prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would proceed on the greatest of public stages — New York City.

With the strict evidentiary rules in force in federal civilian courts, it is easy to see how the prosecution of Mohammed could morph into an indictment of the Bush administration’s interrogation techniques and waterboarding. As in rape trials, the magnitude of the underlying crime (masterminding the 9/11 attacks) might well be lost as the defense puts the victim (in this case, the government) on trial.

It is not political theater itself to which Obama objects — but theater that highlights issues that liberals would rather forget. He is quite content to let the Mohammed trial become the theater of the left. Perhaps even eager.

Obama and his handlers know that the key to building favorable ratings is to control the agenda. And the more the national discussion centers on national security and terrorism, the more Republicans gain. So the Fort Hood terror attack comes at an awful time for an administration trying to turn the nation’s attention away from the terrorist threat.

As soon as the killing spree was over, Obama hastened to call it “an act of violence” — obscuring the obvious fact that it was the most serious terror attack on US soil since 9/11. And, as evidence mounts that the FBI was on to Major Nidal Malik Hasan for years, the president is doing his best to stop Congress from finding out why these warnings went unheeded.

Even as Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee confirmed that the government knew of 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radical imam in Yemen — who was urging the killing of American troops — starting last December, Obama hastened to urge Congress to refrain from investigating why the danger signs were ignored.

The Obama administration has a clear agenda here:

1) Stop people from focusing in how his administration permitted the worst domestic terror attack in eight years.

2) Avoid a national airing of how liberal policies — restraints on the intelligence community, political correctness in the armed forces — might have inhibited the military from reining in Hasan.

3) Re-ignite a firestorm on the left and abroad against the aggressive anti-terror policies of the Bush administration.

Making all this particularly important for Obama are his other political needs.

As he likely decides to send more troops to Afghanistan and eyes abandoning the “public option” to secure Senate passage of his health-care plan, Obama has to rebuild his credibility on the left. A public circus that focuses on waterboarding and interrogations could be just what he wants and needs.

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