Posted on 11/17/2009 9:27:42 AM PST by reaganaut1
Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters oppose the Obama administration’s decision to try the confessed chief planner of the 9/11 attacks and other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% of voters favor the president’s decision not to try the suspects by military tribunal at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba where they are now imprisoned. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure whether it was the right decision or not.
Only 30% of Americans said suspected terrorists should have access to U.S. courts, while 54% favored military tribunals in July 2008, as the first such tribunal got under way at Guantanamo.
Still, 58% of voters now are at least somewhat confident that New York City will be safe and secure while the trials are going on. Yet only 20% are very confident of that fact. Thirty-eight percent (38%) are not very or not at all confident that New York will be safe during this period.
Most voters have consistently opposed moving any of the Guantanamo prisoners to prisons in the United States out of safety concerns.
Voters continue to overwhelmingly oppose giving the terrorist suspects the same legal rights in court as U.S. citizens. Only 14% say the suspects should be given the rights of citizens, but 76% disagree.
The decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five other suspects in a Lower Manhattan courtroom near the site of the World Trade Center is part of the administration’s plan to shut down the
Guantanamo terrorist prison camp by January. Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters oppose closing that facility, and 48% think it is unlikely it will be closed by January as President Obama has pledged.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Had President Bush proposed this exact same scenario it would have been “80% Oppose Decision To Try Terrorists In NYC”.
51%? This is a joke right. I am sure it is way more than that.
“When and where did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed acquire his right to a trial by a jury of his peers in a U.S. court?”
—— Pat Buchanan
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116268
19%= I don't know..
29%= I don't care
It would be interesting to see the wording of the poll:
“As you may know Glorious Leader Obama had decided to expose the war crimes of the Bush administration by trying a group of misguided extremists driven to commit crimes because of American abuse and oppression.
Do you favor permitting New York City to host the trials of the victims of American torture, or do you think these proceedings should be held somewhere else?”
Favor
Disfavor
Unsure
I’m NYS. Not only am I appalled, but I’m wondering if there is any legal way Paterson can stop this. It may be a federal court, but it was an arbitrary, not a necessary decision.
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