Posted on 11/25/2009 6:25:52 AM PST by bestintxas
“I don’t think it will be offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.” - Barack Obama
When questioned later on being judge, jury and executioner, he clarified, “What I said was, people will not be offended if that’s the outcome. I’m not pre-judging, I’m not going to be in that courtroom, that’s the job of prosecutors, the judge and the jury. What I’m absolutely clear about is that I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.”
What I said was…? No it wasn’t. Both Obama and Holder have been guaranteeing a guilty verdict in this trial since the decision was made to try them in New York. And somehow, this is supposed to convince our enemies how fair our court system is? Or is it intended simply to convince the American people that the New York Five will be convicted - without any real substance to the claim - a propaganda attempt to make us feel comfortable with civilian trials of foreign terrorists in the U.S.?
Obama’s and Holder’s statements have already prejudiced the jury pool and could cause the trial to end in a mistrial. Under the law, the government would then be compelled to release KSM and the other four terrorists on American soil. Their very statements alone assure that a “fair trial” would be impossible.
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I think the release of Kahlid Mohammed due to the words of the President and his Attorney General would be enough to start impeachment hearings.
I really think that a decent defense attorney can get a mistrial declared based on public comments and the people of the U.S. will have had enough if that occurs.
Amen!
Although I think we should move him from one Federal Facility to another; from the White House to the Big House.
I think the focus of the trial will be on showing that Bush and Cheney are guilty of war crimes. And I think a mistrial is guaranteed.
Just where is this impartial jury supposed to come from?
If there is one New Yorker that isnt predjidiced against these people that person must be living in the sewers of New York without outside communications of any kind.
A GREAT DEFINITION OF A SCUMBAG LIBERAL DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN...
Think Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Dodd, Murtha, Kerry, Rangel, Frank, Obey, Waters, and the list goes on and on and on.
An oily slimeball who creates the problem, ignores the problem, profits from the problem, and now, he or she’s gonna fix that problem even if he causes even worse problems AND DESTROYS HIS/HER COUNTRY AND STEALS THEIR FREEDOM. Vote them out in 2010 and 2012 and save our country.
This is what gets me -
the WHOLE REASON to try him in civilian court is that there is a possibility that he will be acquitted.
And they deny that that is a possibility.
How Many Lies Is Enough?
(Last sentence in article: “And oh yes, WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?”)
Yeah? Well, that should be the last sentence in EVERY article.
And email.
And conversation.
Who the hell ever heard of electing a President and not EVER knowing if he’s qualified or not?
Who?
Wouldn’t a ‘jury of peers’ by MUSLIMS, in this case?
I think the release of Kahlid Mohammed due to the words of the President and his Attorney General would be enough to start impeachment hearings.
Man, sad to say, I ‘d take that swap any day. Sorry.
Birther ping!
Hopefully, they will "leak" the time and place this release occurs so that we may be there....to protest, of course.
The White House Commie is only supported fellow communists, ignorant young voters and racists.
(Thanks stockpirate)...
All it’ll take is for one muslim to be on the jury and refuse to vote to convict. Or one muzzie sympathiser, one one hard-core Bush hater.
One fool can jack up the whole system through jury nullification and the prosecution would have to consider whether to try again later with a different jury. Millions of dollars lost, no justice served, everyone’s unhappy.
That’s what 0bama has wrought.
Thanks for the ping.
That's a Harvard Law School education for you. Did he even graduate? How stupid can you be even as an affirmative action minority?
“I think the release of Kahlid Mohammed due to the words of the President and his Attorney General would be enough to start impeachment hearings.”
With THIS Democrat-run Congress? I beg to differ. I don’t know which is worse: thinking the president may have secretly wanted such a release and “misspoke” accidently on purpose OR was so inept that his bone-headed yammering led to the identical result. We will all be safer once he has left office, whenever and however that occurs.
Things get curiouser and curiouser- or something like that; with apologies to "Alice In Wonderland".
THIS Congress may not be Democrat-run at all by the time this case gets to trial.
Another of many reasons why we must flip Congress next November.
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