Free the Gitmo 5!
I’m big enough to admit when I’m wrong.
I’ve been critical of President Obama and AG Holder for their imbecilic idea of trying KSM and a few of his closest friends in civilian courts, thereby offering them the full range of rights and privileges extended to American citizens by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights—or to withhold and subvert those rights, thereby disemboweling the precious and irreplaceable US justice system.
But I’ve been wrong.
Now that I see KSM & Co. intend to use this show trial to put on a show their own—a real barn-burner, too—I’m down with it. Dancing virgins, pyrotechnics, contortionists, and bearded ladies—it’s got box office boffo written all over it!
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”
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Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain “their assessment of American foreign policy,” Fenstermaker said. “Their assessment is negative,” he said.
Really? After all we’ve done for them? Ingrates. Maybe they’d rather do their jail time in the Maine State Prison’s Supermax unit, rather than the cozy Caribbean coast of Guantanamo. Maine is lovely in the summer, all five weeks of it.
But I don’t think they’re going to have to worry about that. I think they’re going to get off. If I were on the jury, I’d hold out for not guilty until they dragged my bullet-ridden corpse out of the jury room.
Three thousand people died because of KSM, and I’ve mourned them in this space, but many times that have died in the defense of liberty. I hate miscarriages of justice, and any government that has behaved so appalingly prejudicial toward those who are now presumed innocent until proved guilty won’t get any help from me.
In fact, I suggest KSM and his merry men read up on the trial of the Chicago 8. You want to know how to turn the courtroom into the big top, Abbie Hoffman, peace be upon him, is your man. He was a Jew, Khalid, but your kind of Jew.
Here’s a taste to whet your appetite, boys.