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"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
WH to Justice Dept: Let’s move KSM’s trial out of NYC
Via the NY Daily News (hat tip: Tom Maguire):
The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.
The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would “prefer that they did it elsewhere” and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.
“It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that’s too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood,” Bloomberg told reporters.
“There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City.”
State and city leaders have increasingly railed against a plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Manhattan federal court since Holder proposed it last month.
Sen. Chuck Schumer said he was “pleased” that the administration is reconsidering the location of the trial.
Earlier in the day, Schumer spoke “with high-level members of the administration and urged them to find alternatives,” said the senator’s spokesman, Josh Vlasto.
The order to consider new venues does not change the White House’s position that Mohammed should be tried in civilian court.
“President Obama is still committed to trying Mohammed and four other terrorist detainees in federal court,” spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday.
I feel so much safer, don’t you? 
This administration doesn’t get it and never will. It wasn’t just the idea that KSM would be tried in NYC that was so bloody offensive; it was the fact that he was/is going to be tried in a civilian court when he 1) is not an American citizen, 2) is part of an Islamofascist outfit, one that has declared war on and are determined to make westerners either submit to radical Islam or die, and 3) has already admitted his guilt. We already know the whole “fair trial” excuse by the admin is a complete sham, and that the real reason the admin wants these trials held in the US rather than via a military tribunal at Gitmo is in hopes that it will reveal secret Bush admin counterterrorism practices in order to try and put the evil BushCo on trial. It’s their little way of appeasing the left without actually having any Bush admin official do a perp walk.
Luckily, a few of the adults still left in Congress are trying to stop this farce before it starts:
In Washington, Congressional Republicans who have long opposed criminal trials said they hoped to use the debate over trial locations to steer the cases back to military commissions.
Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, introduced legislation on Wednesday that would block financing for civilian trials for those accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said he would introduce a parallel bill in the Senate next week.
Mr. Graham, an experienced military prosecutor who has long argued that foreign terrorists should be treated as enemy combatants, proposed a similar amendment in November but it failed to pass the Senate by 54 to 45. He said he believed the same measure could pass today.
More power to ‘em.
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The White House has caved, and said they are “looking for other locations” to try these monsters. Attorney General Eric Holder was wrong to want the trials in civilian court to begin with. Former Mayor Giuliani said “The problem is not where they are tried; it’s where they are held”. Our tax dollars already have built a secure courthouse at Guantanamo.
I hope the RNC will start using this to blast away at Republicans, to let them know the party of traitors is just that, and wish for great harm to come to the American people.
This issue, along with health care, should be enough to sink nearly every jackass up for re-election in the Senate, and a lot of them (donkey AND elephant) in the House.
But that makes sense. Don’t look for Steele and gang to follow through.
I suggest Chez Guervera prison at Guantánamo Bay
This whole notion of treating terrorists as criminals, instead of the enemy combatants they are, was shoved down our throats by the European socialists (who still don’t get it) and their American socialist puppy dogs here.
The terrorists should be held in prisoner of war camps till the end of hostilities, and if that takes 100 years, then too frickin bad. They deserve none of the rights afforded to American citizens by a system they are dedicated to destroying.
Frankly, if left up to me, they wouldn’t even be taken prisoner. They don’t take prisoners. They just kill their captives, and film it too, for distribution to their psychotic followers. And you never hear a peep out of Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or the International Court of Justice over the terrorist’s denying their victims their human rights.
@ Tex
*Applauds loudly*
Here’s a deal: Let’s have them tried in Cuba (make a deal with Raul) with the ironclad guarantee that they are to be convicted for crimes against humanity, then hanged. That way they would get justice similar to that in the countries from which they came, it would save on transportation costs, and open a good channel of communication with the fascist dictators on the island. Since Duh-1 is wanting to make this a similar workers’ paradise, I can’t see where he could go wrong!
See, now,,, I loved this whole thang…
I was applauding when I first heard that KSM would be tried in NYC.
The faster this administration is exposed for what they really are, the better. The more they make decisions that are, I mean, almost treasonous, the better!!!
I obviously think it is absurd to try these terrorists anywhere in ANY court, except a military one, but please, keep making these absurd decisions as fast as possible so the sleeping ones wake up faster.
We need not to continue preaching to the choir. We need the oblivious to WAKE UP!! (and soon!)And see this administration for what it is.
This helps our cause…
And we know, (and hope) that most of these totally asinine decisions will be overturned by public opinion, and possibly SOME republicans in the house who still have a bit of back bone!
In the meantime : Keep ‘em Coming!