[Alberta's Child]

That's no excuse -- the Bush administration had ample time to act on the evidence that was presented in this trial. In fact, every "law enforcement official" in the U.S. should have known after the 1993 bombing of the WTC that they were going to target the buildings again -- the guys who masterminded that attack admitted it at their trial.

We are all to blame for this, since we have sit back on our fat @sses and let other people look out for our safety.

This reminds me of an interview I heard up here in Canada with a juror in the case of a child killer a few years ago. This juror (a man in his 40s) apparently held out for an acquittal until the last minute, but finally relented and agreed to convict the defendant.

"Your fellow jurors couldn't understand," the interviewer said, "why you held out for so long when the evidence against the accused killer was so overwhelming."

"To be honest," the guy replied, "I would have convicted on Day 1 based on the evidence in the case. My problem was that I really wanted to see him acquitted. That bastard is going to spend the rest of his life in prison, whereas I was hoping he would be acquitted so I could kill him myself."

Wow.