Posted on 11/16/2009 5:25:28 PM PST by Kaslin
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
Terrorists are not even entitled to the protection of the Geneva Conventions, much less the Constitution of the United States. Terrorists have never observed, nor even claimed to have observed, the Geneva Conventions, nor are they among those covered by it.
But over and above the utter inconsistency of what is being done is the utter recklessness it represents.
The last time an attack on the World Trade Center was treated as a matter of domestic criminal justice was after a bomb was exploded there in 1993. Under the rules of American criminal law, the prosecution had to turn over all sorts of information to the defense — information that told the al-Qaida international terrorist network what we knew about them and how we knew it.
This was nothing more and nothing less than giving away military secrets to an enemy in wartime — something for which people have been executed, as they should have been.
Secrecy in warfare is a matter of life and death. Lives were risked and lost during World War II to prevent Nazi Germany from discovering that Britain had broken its supposedly unbreakable Enigma code and could read their military plans that were being radioed in that code.
"Loose lips sink ships" was the World War II motto in the United States. But loose lips are mandated under the rules of criminal prosecutions.
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Gracias para el Sowell pingo.
Mr. Sowell, again, goes directly to the core. Excellent!
According to a statement made by the Govenor of New York David Patterson yesterday he was told by the White House 6 Months ago that this was going to Happen
I’ll settle for 120 productive years ;-)
Obama is definately certifiable. He and the Clintons are tripping over themselves in their pursuit to give our military secrets away to the enemy.
He and his administration needs to be impeached
Wow! Does that ever fit that turkey.
Told not consulted. Holder is a real tool.
Good ones.
I’d give a fair sum to know exactly what the Emperor and Empress were thinking about Obama when he pulled off that bow stunt on them but bet it’ll never come out.
Excellent!
God help us, have mercy on America for our foolishness, our drifting far from YOU and allowing the evil ones to come to power. Contrary to Your instructions. Forgive us our sins, we have sinned before You and You only. We cry unto you for a turning back to Your way Father, in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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