Attention, NYC: White House still stuck on stupid
The dream of Cirque du Jihad in the Big Apple lives. The White House won’t rule out multiple Gitmo civilian trials in NYC, despite bipartisan opposition and massive public outrage over the costs, risks, and recklessness.
Still stuck on stupid, via the NYDailyNews:
The feds may still try the 9/11 terror thugs near Ground Zero, President Obama said yesterday, shocking critics.
“I have not ruled it out, but I think it’s important for us to take into account the practical, logistical issues involved,” Obama told CBS News anchor Katie Couric.
…Julie Menin, the chairwoman of lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1, said Obama needs to say where he stands on the issue once and for all.
The President “should unequivocally state that he will not hold these trials in New York City and then figure out where they’re going to move the trial,” she said.
Related: Team O’s civil-liberties woes
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs declared last week that 9/11 kingpin KSM “is going to meet justice, and he’s going to meet his maker and he’s likely to be executed for the heinous crimes that he committed.”
And President Obama himself said something similar last November, declaring of KSM: “I don’t think that it will be offensive at all when he’s convicted and the death sentence is applied to him.”
Now, obviously KSM is guilty, and richly deserves to die.
Indeed, he and his comrades offered to plead guilty before military tribunals — and to accept the death penalty.
But now that Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have decided, in order to prove that America really is committed to civil liberties, to try these killers in civilian court, they need to . . . well, respect civil liberties.
Loose talk like that from Gibbs and Obama is a hanging curveball for defense lawyers determined to exploit every single one of KSM & Co.’s new constitutional rights.
That defense lawyers’ cabal, I remind you again, includes a cadre of Attorney General Eric Holder’s old colleagues at Covington & Burling.
Nice assist, eh?
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Via Keep America Safe, here’s the Obama video. Still not listening:
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Like most liberals their ideology is above everyone’s commonsense, and their ego overrules everything else.
I would not be surprised if B. Hussein Obama and the other socialists/fascists/America-haters are draaawwwiiiinnng out this affair as an exercise in confusion and diversion, following the credo, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bu!!$h*@”; hoping that, in the end, we won’t know whom nor what to blame for whatever disaster this evil, deliberate idiocy produces.
How many ways can we say ‘tainted jury pool’ and keep a straight face? We have a serious case of collective amnesia.
The obstinate track taken by Obama is a clear indication he has another agenda, than just proving “that America really is committed to civil liberties.”
As the Russians say at the ballet, his stated reasons are just Bolshoi.
Does anybody else hear Yakety Sax?
Why, yes, now that you mention it!
I think I can make out a bit of Curly’s Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!, too.
When the government no longer gives a damn what the people say it’s not by accident. It’s by design.
We now have a Dictator in Chief.
KSM deserves a jury trial more than that traitor Holder. At least KSM admits to being the enemy.
Hey, Obama daughters:I have a gift suggestion for Father’s day:Buy pop a necktie.
I have to agree with Granite on this one.
Remember, there is no rush to bring these enemy combatants to trial. Obama can wait this out until the day before he leaves office in January 2013 (at which point he’ll just pardon them).
Seriously, this is just a distraction. He will drag it out a very long time because he cannot easily back out of it. It needs to drop to page 8 or lower so he can just move the venue to Gitmo with no fanfare. Or, he’s waiting for the “inevitable” attack we’ve been promised so he can say “Well, NOW I can’t have the trials there”.
From what I have read, they do not give Christmas presents.
Do you think they would bother with Father’s day presents?
Asked and answered. Its all about the hook-ups and feeding money back into the liberal machine. Obama makes even Tricky Dick look good by comparison- after all, he only lied about knowing about someone else’s crime.
Obowmao: Let me be perfectly clear, I won, I know what’s best, and oh yeah, eat my shorts America!
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Keep stomping that Jihadi porcupine, Beltway Bob Gibbs! Take off your boots so you can enjoy the full effects.
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John Bibb
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HAHAHAHAHAHA. Beltway Bob. Perfect. Odopo & Company are the gift that keeps on giving.
Personally, I hope Obama keeps pushing for the trials in NYC. The way I look at it is it will force Congress to act by denying the funding for the transfer of detainees to NYC from GITMO.
They will either have to vote with the voters and deny the funding or vote with Obama and face the voters down the line. Either way it is a lose lose situation for the Democrats as a whole.
Is that the music played during the silent “Keystone Kops” movies?
Listen to the clip. Don’t you just love it when Obama calls TERRORISTS “folks?
Notice that Obama used the expression “when the death sentence is applied to him”. He did not say “when KSM is put to death”. Obama knows that federal judges will delay the death penalty for years, even if KSM ever gets the death penalty in the trial. It is also highly unlikely that a federal jury in NYC would give the death penalty anyway. To avoid the death penalty, KSM only needs one holdout and the holdout only need to hold out for a few days before the federal judge (almost all liberal activists on the federal bench in NYC) declares a hung jury and then gleefully gives KSM a life term. So it is highly unlikely, given the liberal nature of the jury pool in New York and given the liberal nature of federal judges, that KSM will ever be given the death penalty in the first place. The other thing that Obama did not mention is that Holder is planning on giving KSM and all defendants special death penalty defense lawyers. These lawyers are only used for the penalty phase and they are very skilled at avoiding death sentences. This is what they do all day and all year long. They need only concentrate on the juror(s) that the jury selection expert (also to be paid for by taxpayers) tells them are likely holdouts. Obama should be compelled to answer: “Will you consider this case a failure if KSM is spared the death penalty?”. Holder was not asked that question. I wish I could have crossexamined Holder instead of the dummies in the Senate that allowed Holder to glide right on by.
I hear that Murtha just died.
Grounds for a mistrial, possibly. The President has tried and convicted him, in the news, exposed to everyone. Anyone remember Nixon and Manson? The defense might get away with it, this time.
This guy just doesn’t get it, or gets it and still thinks his way is better despite endangering American lives.
Talk about Kool-Aide drinkers… this guy is the Kool-Aide Drinker in Chief.
Is there any reason why they wouldn’t be?
Not sure about the KKs, but I remember it from Benny Hill.
you can’t cure stupid! and you can’t change ideological beliefs, hence any fool can see communism NEVER works, but each communist is determined that it will work with his/her expertise. INSANITY.
I see Ali Khamenei of Iran has promised “a punch” to the West on February 11th. I wonder if that involves Israel.
…Cuz Stupid’s still in the White House.
Not sure who the bigger buffoon is: Gibbs or Obowmao.
All the presidents men, must create a crisis for which to exploit.
Unfortunately, the crisis created is bigger than all of them.
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The idea of having trials for jihaddis in NY, particularly famous jihaddis, is stupid if you are concerned about the welfare of the nation and concerned about the welfare of NY in particular. It might not be if you don’t care about such things.
I wouldn’t assume that Red Hussein is necessarily stupid to that degree.
His priorities lie elsewhere.
And he really doesn’t give a damn what we think.
Bill O’Reilly pointed out last night that when Holder announced the stupefying decision to try this scum in NYC, Obama’s reply to questions about it was “that’s the decision of the Attorney General.”
Now: “He” [Obama] has not “decided yet”.
The BS express, Obama style.