Posted on 11/14/2009 1:28:57 PM PST by GOPGuide
The father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl slammed the Obama administration's decision to hold a public trial for admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed -- who boasted of killing his son in Pakistan.
Judea Pearl said he was "sick to the stomach" when he heard that the Justice Department decided to prosecute Mohammed in Manhattan federal court.
"I don't want to hear every morning in the papers what KSM did," Pearl told The Post last night. "Danny was killed once. Now he will be killed 10 times a day. Leave him alone."
VIDEO: 9/11 SUSPECTS TO BE TRIED IN NY
His son's beheading in 2002 was caught on a gruesome video that shocked the world.
"The 21st century saw three shocks," Pearl said. "The first was 9/11. The second was the killing of my son. And the third was the shock today."
The reporter's outraged father, a UCLA professor, said a public trial would allow the admitted mass murderer to "boast about his cruelty" and encourage other terrorists to inflict harm.
Pearl said the prosecution of Mohammed should be done in closed session to avoid giving terrorists a platform.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We only saw photos of Daniel as captured but none of the others that are mentioned. His death was the first of several brutal murders by this group of animals...
I’m sure Ellen Goodman and Maureen Dowd and the others who say the families of those killed by the jihadists have the moral authority will rush to agree with him. But I won’t hold my breath.
Obama HATES the U.S. and why he wants to SHAME the U.S. through this ridiculous “trial”. OBAMA IS OUR ENEMY. OBAMA IS A LIAR AND A TERRORIST. I make NO APOLOGY FOR THAT FACT. Sanction me till YOU are silly.
Hussein doesn’t care about American victims, his sympathies are all with his Muslim brethren.The beheadings, the people who were forced to either burn alive or jump to their deaths—none of them mean a thing to Hussein. CAIR and other Islam jihadist front groups are right on time with their warnings about the “backlash” that never happens after innocent Americans are killed by Muslims. Over and over we are reminded that a majority voted to give this country away for their free “gimmees”.
Mr Pearl.....did you VOTE for Bammy?? Methinks you probably did. How’s that Hope and CHANGE working out for you??
Mr. Pearl.....Bammy is a Jew Hating Muslim!! Listen to Rev. Wright and that will tell you how Bammy thinks about Jews. Jews just can’y face it that a fellow Liberal would hate them.
Which is precisely why the left will call for, and 0bama will force, a wide open trial.
He needs to keep us focused on this so he can continue to implement his nefarious plans in the dark...
I was thinking the same thing.... hope I am wrong.
I attended a funeral this morning where Eric Holder spoke. As he gave his remarks, his KSM decision was all I could think about. I wondered if it was on the minds of the one thousand members of law enforcement community who had to sit and listen to him as well.
I know this is going to sound callous but I can’t keep from asking “How did Mr Pearl vote?”
I’ll never forget seeing that clip of his son and why I watched remains a mystery to me. But I went to the ‘range’ that evening with my brother, and remember us talking about everything going on, and I broke out crying. Didn’t know where that came from really, but almost sobbing...about the sheer hatred and barbarianism that had descended on the United States of America. It is still hard to grasp...but now I’m almost a decade older and a decade harder.
There was one of the beheading and the animal holding his head.
Obama doesn’t hate Jews. He doesn’t even hate Israelis. He only hates those who don’t move in his circles.
87% chance Mr. Pearl voted for the man-child.
An open challenge to all FReepers, Lurkers, O-Bots and Trolls
Prove me wrong.
at least! The whole family probably showed up!
Regardless of who Mr. Pearl voted for, he has a right to be outraged.
This is the tortured father who had told his son that it’s good to be open and talk with anybody.
Details and video of Pearl’s beheading. Anything graphic can be ignored....
How convenient!
There is not a single Daniel Pearl video out there.
ALL of them have been removed.
I wanted to post it to remind people of how EVIL these people are. EVen animals don’t kill like this. CENSORS don’t want YOU to be reminded of the TRUTH of what Islam is about. It’s EVIL.
No,
“Obama doesn’t hate Jews. He doesn’t even hate Israelis. He only hates those who don’t move in his circles.”
Obama is a closet Muslim. They HATE JEWS and other “infideles”. You do have appoint, he HATES those who are AGAINST HIM TOO.
No,
“Obama doesn’t hate Jews. He doesn’t even hate Israelis. He only hates those who don’t move in his circles.”
Obama is a closet Muslim. They HATE JEWS and other “infideles”. You do have appoint, he HATES those who are AGAINST HIM TOO.
IF Pearl’s father voted for the Moslem traitor Marxist, then he deserves whatever the Moslem usurper dishes out to his naive Jewish soul.
I repeat... IF he voted for Bambo.
If he didn’t, then I’m with Pearl 100%. I agree with his position on this.
I believe that everything 0bama has done has:
A. weakened America
B. strengthened islam
C. attacked Israel
YOU, speak the truth!
Put it another way. He doesn’t hate Jews who are willing to serve him. That, unfortunately, seems to be a large number of Jews.
Mr Pearle is learning that he, like all useful idiots, has been cast aside by the marxists.
OPINION SEPTEMBER 12, 2009, 10:23 A.M. ET We Need a New Legal Regime to Fight the War on Terror
An open letter to the attorney general.
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My name is Judea Pearl. I am the father of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal South Asia bureau chief who was abducted and brutally murdered in Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 31, 2002.
If there is one thing that could soothe the pain of those of us whose loved ones were murdered by terrorists, it is the knowledge that our losses were not in vain, but have been channeled towards eradicating the evil of terrorism from the face of the earth.
Let me be clear: We are less concerned about details—like where these men will serve their sentences—that seem to dominate the public debate. We care most about the message our government projects about its determination in this struggle.
The message from our government should reach the ears of several audiences: terrorists, their sympathizers, their potential recruits, the world at large, and, most importantly, the next generation of Americans.
First and foremost, it must proclaim unequivocally that America is still committed to the war on terror, and that this war includes not just active combatants or members of recognized terrorist organizations, but the ideology of terror itself. In other words, America should affirm its commitment to fight any ideology that licences the targeting of innocent civilians to transmit political messages.
In the same way that our medical research institutions have declared a war on cancer—not on one tumor or another—your message should make it clear that America is not merely at war with al Qaeda or individual perpetrators of the crimes. It is the ideology of terrorism in its various incarnations that is our most fierce enemy.
With this objective in mind, you should recommend that detainees suspected of terror be classified as a new legal category. Existing categories derived from criminal law and conventional warfare are not equipped to deal with the threat democracies now face.
America must muster the courage to define a new category and deal with it on its own terms. This is perhaps the most important recommendation that your task forces could make.
By crafting the Geneva Conventions at the end of World War II, the international community demonstrated the necessity of creating new legal frameworks to deal with new realities. That same need should now compel the international community to embrace a legal category to deal with the new phenomena of a war with no foreseen ending; an army with no honor and no respect for human life; an army with no uniform, no country and no government; and an army that does not reciprocate agreements.
I am constantly reminded of the case of piracy, which was a menace until the mid-19th century, when the international community got together and eradicated in just a few years. This was only possible because of a radical change in international law that proclaimed it a crime not against a particular state, but against all mankind. It is this kind of sweeping legal innovation that we and the entire civilized world hope to see you propose.
Whatever decisions you make regarding the physical and legal handling of the current detainees, it is imperative that going forward every potential terrorist would know that, if caught, he will not be entitled to privileges under existing legal categories but subject to a new set of restrictions.
In addition to placing detainees in this new category, you should also recommend that they are tried in closed sessions. Detainees should not be given a platform to broadcast messages to their comrades or recruits back home. There is nothing more enticing to a would-be terrorist than the prospect of becoming the center of world attention, able to broadcast his alleged grievances to every living room on this planet.
Our son was murdered—and his beheading videotaped—to satisfy this craving for publicity. Your recommendations must make it clear to every would-be terrorist that, if captured, he will go down the path of total oblivion to the extent allowed by law.
The question of freedom of speech might enter into this issue, especially if media gag orders are considered. Here I am reminded of child pornography, which is not protected by the First Amendment, not for the purpose of limiting consumption, but for the purpose of curbing production. We live in a world where a sizable segment of the population is aroused by cruelty. To prevent this cruelty from spreading, we must impose blackouts on much of what these detainees may wish to boast about in their testimonies.
We who are living the war on terror every minute of our lives wish you success in your difficult, yet historic task. The future of civilized society may depend on your decisions.
Mr. Pearl, a professor of computer science at UCLA, is president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, founded in memory of his son to promote cross-cultural understanding.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400560752229956.html
Why Israelis are cool on the Obama speech
by Judea Pearl
18 June 2009 Print
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LOS ANGELES - A friend asked me to explain why people in Israel, including seasoned peace activists, felt less than buoyant about Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo last week.
In theory, Mr. Obama’s speech has affirmed everything Israelis have ever hoped for. Peaceful coexistence and mutual acceptance with its Arab neighbours has been the ultimate dream of the Zionist movement since the Balfour declaration of 1917. So, why not embrace a landmark US presidential speech that calls for concrete steps to advance that dream?
My friend reminded me of the outburst of joy that seized the Jewish world on 29 November 1947, when the United Nations voted to partition the Biblical land into a Jewish and an Arab state of roughly equal size. There was hardly a dissenting voice then among Israelis. Half a century later, the peace offers that Ehud Barak made to Yasser Arafat in 2000 and Ehud Olmert to Abu Mazen in 2009 prove that the two-state utopia is still firmly lodged in the psyche of most Israelis. Why then weren’t Israelis ecstatic over Mr. Obama’s speech?
There are two main reasons.
The first stems from crossed signals that are blocking the resumption of peace talks. Palestinians view Israeli settlement construction as the litmus test for Israel’s intentions vis-à-vis a future Palestinian state. Israelis view Palestinian textbooks, TV programs and sermons to be the litmus test of Palestinian intentions. A society that teaches its youngsters to negate its neighbour’s legitimacy, so the argument goes, cannot be serious about respecting a peace accord as permanent.
Mr. Obama’s speech, keenly recognizing the importance of emitting trust-building signals to break the stalemate, had crisp and stern words to say about Israeli settlements but hardly a word about Palestinian denial and incitement.
“The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements”, the president said. “It is time for these settlements to stop.” The hoped-for reciprocal sentence, “It is time for Palestinian incitements to stop”, was conspicuously absent. Commentaries on Israeli TV noted disappointedly that not a single demand was addressed to the Palestinian Authority.
This has left many Israelis wondering if Obama’s advisors are aware of the fierce, subterranean “battle of intentions” that has prevented the peace process from moving forward. In Israel, even the harshest opponent of the settlement movement would not support the emergence of a sovereign neighbour, rocket range away, which is unwilling to invest in education for a lasting peace. A call for a simultaneous freeze on both Israeli settlements and Palestinian incitement, clad in time tables and monitoring methods, would have invited both sides to an equal honesty test. Such a test is crucial to jump start the “new beginning” that Mr. Obama called for and, naturally, Israelis expect it to be symmetrical.
Secondly, Mr. Obama’s rationale for Israel’s legitimacy began with the Holocaust, not with the birthplace of Jewish history. “The aspiration for a Jewish homeland”, he said “is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied”. Who else defines Israel’s legitimacy that way?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does. Iran and the rejectionist faction of Arab intellectuals see Israel as a foreign entity to the region, hastily created to sooth European guilt over the Holocaust at the expense of the indigenous Palestinians.
Israelis consider this ideology to be a distortion of history and an assault on the core of their identity as a nation.
An affirmation of “Israel’s historical right to exist”, based on a 2,000-year continuous quest to rebuild a national homeland, is what moderate forces in the region need to hear from Mr. Obama. The magic words “historical right” have the capacity to change the entire equation in the Middle East. They convey a genuine commitment to permanence, and can therefore invigorate the peace process with the openness and good will that it has been lacking thus far.
It is no wonder that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in his policy speech last Sunday, made historic recognition an axiomatic part of any peace agreement. Notably, he did not call for recognizing Israel as a “Jewish state” but, rather, for “recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people”.
The appeal to nationhood and peoplehood, rather than religion, amounts to an appeal for recognising the historical claims of both sides as equally indigenous, hence equally deserving a permanent status in the region.
It is now a golden opportunity for Mr. Obama to echo Mr. Netanyahu in a call for a symmetrical recognition of the historical rights of both sides. This would turn Mr.
Obama’s speech in Cairo into a huge leap forward in the quest for peace and understanding in the region.
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* Mr. Pearl, a professor of computer science at UCLA, is president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, founded in memory of his son to promote cross-cultural understanding. This is a CGNews-ME adaptation of an article that originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal and is distributed by the Common Ground News Service (CGNews) with permission from the author.
http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=25708&lan=en&sid=0&sp=0&isNew
If Obama has any modicum of respect he won’t allow this charade to happen. I fear the worst, for this poor man.
Mr. Pearl, you ain’t the only one sickened.
When I heard people refer to “right-wing extremists,” I would get mad. However, I think I have found them.
Correction: He only hates those he can't manipulate, control or won't kiss his feet which is typical of a Narcissist.
Didn’t find any.
I found text on Daniel Pearl.
I don’t revel in gore but SOME PEOPLE need to be REMINDED!
And we ought not be bashing Mr. Pearl.
It’s gone from the internet.
CENSORHSIP!
You are to believe Islam is a “religion of peace”.
Pictures or videos disrupt that fantasy.
Yet, President Zero got 78% of the Jewish vote! How’s that working for you leftists? Happy for the monster you helped elect and for setting the stage for this nightmare? Wait until Tehran goes nuclear, and BO bends over and waves goodbye to Israel... Thanks idiots!
It doesn’t surprise me.
Im sorry but I dont think america deserves Obama or his cronies
Sorry, Judea.
Your son’s buddies elected Otreason and this is part of the consequences.
Reminds me of the opening scenes of The Godfather.
You wanted justice? You needed Republicans.
Look, when YOU lose a son to a beheading, then maybe you can bash him.
It is so easy for people to criticize sitting in the comfort of their own homes.
If I remember correctly, Mr. Pearl was against the war in Iraq. However, what happened to his son was beyond atrocious.
He too has a right to speak up about this. You may or may not agree with him, but that is what so many have died for.
Disagree. If he voted for 0 then his vote helped set this atrocity in motion. Otherwise we wouldn't be having the discussion.
Just my observation, but there are a number of whackos that will attach themselves to your posts.
I've lurked more than I've posted--with a very good reason.
This just highlights how extreme the Obama left-wing nuts are. This is like being lectured on modesty by madonna.
Why??? He most likely voted for him!
Obama is a Muslim. Muslims hate Jews
I’m sure Daniel Pearl’s father - not to mention his pro-Muslim, anti-Bush Japanese (IIRC) widow - was your basic liberal and voted for Bambi the way any liberal did - feeling noble and exalted because he was voting for The Black Liberal Guy.
They actually voted for a sociopathic Marxist Muslim, but they were all useful idiots and some of them are waking up. When they wake up, don’t drive them away. Let by-gones by by-gones and don’t make former Bambi supporters explain or justify themselves. If we’re too harsh, we’ll never get enough people in this country together to get rid of him. We need to have critical mass to impeach him.
Daniel Pearl was murdered before we went into Iraq.
I have nothing but the deepest sympathy for the Pearl family.
Not only the loss of their son but their daughter in law getting involved with that dirtbag from CNN after the death of her husband.
I pray the Pearl family has contact with their precious grandson.
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