Posted on 02/16/2008 7:25:17 AM PST by jdm
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned and helped execute the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 Americans. He also planned the 1993 World Trade Center Attack, the attacks in Bali and Kenya that killed hundreds more, and attacks that never had the chance to take place thanks to his capture and interrogation by American intelligence agents. We know this because KSM himself openly brags about his atrocities as a point of pride.
Now some have decided to help him commit his final atrocity -- by painting himself as a victim:
On Monday, some six years after 9/11, military prosecutors filed charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's foreign-operations chief, along with five of his conspirators. They will stand before a military tribunal, and if convicted they could face execution. And as if to prove that the U.S. has lost its seriousness and every sense of proportion, now we are told not that KSM is a killer, but a victim.
The victim, supposedly, of President Bush. Opponents of military commissions (including Barack Obama) want KSM & Co. turned over to the regular civilian courts, or at least to military courts-martial; anything else is said to abridge American freedoms. This attitude is either disingenuous or naïve, or both, because it is tenable only by discounting the nature of the attacks and the enemies who carried them out. ...
Purportedly the tribunals are illegitimate because they do not afford every last Miranda right or due-process safeguard of the civilian courts. The key and appropriate distinction is that foreign terrorists are not entitled to the protections of the U.S. Constitution. They also violated the laws of war -- for example, by deliberately targeting civilians. International law has always held that such people deserve fewer legal protections, much less those of civilian defendants.
Allowing KSM access to civilian courts would provide one of the most foul ironies in American justice. KSM plotted from abroad to commit terrorist attacks on the US and its citizens, including the mass murder of thousands of civilians -- and succeeded twice, although WTC I in 1993 didn't collapse the Twin Towers as he had hoped. That isn't a criminal act; it's an act of war, one with precedent all the way back to the founding of this nation. He also helped attack the Pentagon, making 9/11 clearly an act of war. No one suggested arresting the Barbary Pirates and trying them in civilian courts during the first few decades of our existence -- we formed a standing Navy and sent the Marines to kill them.
It should be remembered that KSM wanted to see the US collapse. His organization, al-Qaeda, wants to eliminate court systems based on the rule of law and have them replaced by shari'a courts based on the whims of radical Muslim imams. Given that and the fact that we didn't arrest him in Hoboken but captured him abroad while plotting even more acts of war and terrorism against the US, the notion that he deserves a day in an American civilian court insults both our system of justice and the memory of the thousands of people KSM killed.
Nor does KSM deserve a court-martial. Only military personnel get courts-martial as befitting their standing. KSM conducted his war as an unlawful combatant, not in the uniform of any recognized military nor in the service of a legitimate government. Nuremberg, it should be recalled, was not a court-martial either; it was a tribune which tried both civilian and military leaders for their crimes against humanity.
Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court have all settled on the current military tribunal system, which gives KSM a lot more justice than he deserves. It has more protections and evidentiary restrictions than the International Criminal Court, as the WSJ notes. It beats what KSM really deserves as a consequence of his unlawful combatant status under the circumstances -- a single pellet of lead in the brainpan.
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Oh! The poor man. We should kill him with kindness,
Thanks for that link.
I hope these guys are executed before the next President takes office.
The loudest noise is made by the Leftist Scum Lawyers whom would benefit both financially and notoriously from taxpayer funding of a Civil trial versus a Military Tribunal.
Justice be damned if a guy can make some big bucks, and become a household name to set himself/herself up for a lucrative future at the same time.
He is in for a big surprise.
It is called ADX Florence, Colorado, United States Maximum Security Penitentiary.
The following are alleged to be the conditions of the maximum security cell block at that facility:
If he gets the maximum security cell block, he will wear paper pajamas, slippers with no heels, be in lockdown 23 hours of the day, and have 1 hour of exercise in a concrete pit in the center of the cell block a day, by himself.
He will eat food on a paper plate with his hands, and will have to return the plate when done. He will be allowed to borrow only one book at a time, including a Koran, which will be examined before and after his use. He will sleep on a concrete bed with a Kevlar mat on it, and no blanket. It will be the only object in his single occupancy cell other than an auto-flush toilet.
Guards will be forbidden to talk to him, and he will be allowed one visitor a month, including his attorney. He will only get indirect sunlight, and will not be able to see outside the cell.
His cell block mates will include such illustrious figures as the spies Jonathan Pollard and John Walker, Jr.
Here is a listing of the prisoners in that facility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_at_ADX_Florence
He is in for a big surprise.
It is called ADX Florence, Colorado, United States Maximum Security Penitentiary.
The following are alleged to be the conditions of the maximum security cell block at that facility:
If he gets the maximum security cell block, he will wear paper pajamas, slippers with no heels, be in lockdown 23 hours of the day, and have 1 hour of exercise in a concrete pit in the center of the cell block a day, by himself.
He will eat food on a paper plate with his hands, and will have to return the plate when done. He will be allowed to borrow only one book at a time, including a Koran, which will be examined before and after his use. He will sleep on a concrete bed with a Kevlar mat on it, and no blanket. It will be the only object in his single occupancy cell other than an auto-flush toilet.
Guards will be forbidden to talk to him, and he will be allowed one visitor a month, including his attorney. He will only get indirect sunlight, and will not be able to see outside the cell.
Here is a listing of the prisoners in that facility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_at_ADX_Florence
problem is there are quotes to back up hussien obama’s thinking that this dirtbag is a victim....
Let's drown him in a vat of ice cream.
The victim, supposedly, of President Bush. Opponents of military commissions (including Barack Obama) ....
didn’t the piaps state....”it takes a village”???
she was right....a village of idiots!!!!!
The victim, supposedly, of President Bush. Opponents of military commissions (including Barack Obama) ....
didn’t the piaps state....”it takes a village”???
she was right....a village of idiots!!!!!
I think the President is starting his own personal campaign to give more rope to Obama to hang himself this election season.
They were detained, interrogated, confessed, tried by a military tribunal, had their appeals heard by the US Supreme Court, and were in the electric chair at the DC municipal jail on August 8, 1942.
The Bush administration is profoundly unserious about their "war".
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