Brilliant - KSD decision [VANITY]

11/16/09 | Paul K. Osborn

[Darteaus94025]

Brilliant
Like most Americans, I was initially shocked at the decision announced by the Obama administration to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSD) and other Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detainees in New York under civilian law. I was shocked by the prima facie stupidity of the decision to unnecessarily avail terrorists with the full rights, legal processes and courtroom procedures due an American citizen. I love America, and I want what’s best for her. But, when one hates the traditional American way of life, this decision is a masterstroke.


To cripple and ultimately destroy a stronger or entrenched adversary, invest in tactics whose deployment costs little, but your foe must spend far more to purchase an effective defense.
Moving the terrorists to New York will require millions simply to provide for years of their physical security. The trial process will require tens of millions more - per month: Will the courtroom and court building be hardened physically? How far around the court will the security zone extend, and how many layers of security will there be? Will the jury be sequestered? Will their families be protected, and for how long? Soft costs include: traffic closures during each detainee and witness movement, the productivity loss of family and friends reliving 911 during the months of trial, etc. These costs must be borne during the year(s) of the trial and the years of the appeals processes. These trial and appeals processes cost Al-Qaeda literally nothing, and they will ultimately cost America hundreds of millions of dollars.


Force your foe to reveal the sources and methods of their intelligence gathering, as this immediately compromises the intelligence gathering assets themselves, thereby weakening the intelligence organizations. Furthermore, intelligence agency revelations provide Al-Qaeda agents, handlers, trainers and organization with an actual itemized list of do’s and don’ts to avoid detection and survive interrogation.
KSD simply needs to demand the right to confront his accusers, i.e. the agents who interrogated and processed him: “Please state your name for the record.” “Tell the jury the exact protocol for all methods of ‘enhanced interrogation.’ ” “List all agents and the agencies of those agents who were involved during the entire interrogation and custody process of the accused.” During the trial of KSD, our agents, our techniques and our ally’s agents will become known and thus ineffective, i.e. we give our playbook to the other side.


Employ these tactics in front of a wide audience in order to: reveal your foe’s weakness, what will happen to each of your foe’s potential allies, how Al-Qaeda now drives international events, and, ultimately, advance Al-Qaeda’s financial and recruiting efforts.
Who doubts the acclaim and cheers that KSD and his fellows will receive as they humiliate the Great Satan via world-wide simulcast day after day from the very belly of the beast? Donations and Jihadists flock to the organization that leads the humiliation of the Great Satan bringing power to that organization’s leaders. Furthermore, will members of the US military receive increased local support as they crawl in the dust of Afghanistan trying to avoid IEDs while Al Jezzerra shows KSD grandstanding everyday in New York?


In the eyes of an administration that advanced the idea of prosecuting CIA agents, an administration that surrounds itself with and assimilates the vanguard of the most radical elements of unAmerican society, the decision to force America to pay terrorists to stage a Ground Zero Théâtre de l'Absurde revealing and betraying America’s agents and allies in the War On Terror while advancing militant Islamic organizational goals must appear brilliant.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

How about the Daniel Pearl beheading? He says he did it. And this was before he was water boarded.

It's going to be a long messy 3 ring circus.

[Hodar]

How about the Daniel Pearl beheading? He says he did it. And this was before he was water boarded.

But he could certainly say that he said it under duress, he said it without the benefit of Miranda rights or defense attorney. Plus, if I were him I would recant it; just to make things miserable and perpetuate the circus atmosphere.

IMHO, the more foolish they can make America look, the more likely they will be able to recruit more Jihadists to fight the 'stupid' Great Satan. And that does not include the hey-day that Al Quaeda is going to have celebrating their 'hero' on TV. Bear in mind, many Islamists do not speak english - so do you suppose any 'Journalistic License' will be taken in the translation that airs in the Middle East?

I just wish, with all my heart, that the fools who make these idiotic decisions, would be held personally accountable for the death and mayhem that will result from those decisions.

[DNME]

Yet another act of seemingly insane political theater from Zero. Why?

Has anybody floated even a lousy reason why the trials should be held in the U.S.? And in New York, no less? Why not in East Overshoe, Montana? Or Death Valley, California?

At first I thought Zero was just making rookie mistakes. New to the office, that sort of thing. But then I noticed a pattern. Everything that America is known for — finance, manufacturing, health care, energy, natural resources and freedom — are now gone or going fast. Add “law” and “covert ops” to that list.

Once he gets to “food production” then it’s all over for us. Any predictions?

Keep your powder dry.

[darth]

I have been wondering why Obama would do something that endangered the country and his presidential prospects so much. What is the agenda? Who is pulling his strings?

When you consider that it was probably Saudi money that put him through Harvard, I’m betting that he is an “agent of influence” that they OWN. I also wonder where he got $800M in campaign donations, much of it from pre-paid debit cards. The radical Wahabis may actually have pulled off an incredible coup by putting their guy in the White House.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Any predictions?

Yes. When they start screwing with our food, the short sighted idiots will start dying from hot lead injections.

[Shimmer1]

shudder* but not homeschooled kids. Tomorrow’s salvation

[America2012]

KSD = Khalid Sheik Democrat