Circus Opening Act

A judge is set to hear arguments about possible violation of the “rights” of the accused terrorist bomber of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans (http://tinyurl.com/ybqrqjo). Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was moved from Gitmo to NY last spring and is the first Gitmo prisoner to be prosecuted in a US civilian court.

This is the opening act in the circus of US civilian trials for terrorists such as the accused mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, brought to NY for trial by Attorney General Eric Holder. Terrorist defense lawyers will begin splitting hairs and finding legal loopholes to obfuscate the charges, treating these terrorists as if they were nothing more than cat burglars caught with stolen goods.

This first trial begins with matters of the accused’s rights and will no doubt continue down a path portraying the terrorist as victim. The Bush administration, the CIA and our military will be questioned more than the terrorist and America’s foreign policies over the past century will end up on trial while the 224 innocent people killed in the bombings will be given scant attention. The world will watch in fascination as the American Justice System gives comfort and aid to our sworn enemy and allows self mutilation to become the main event.

These civilian terrorist trials are expected to last years and cost millions and millions of dollars. They will probably continue long after Obama is voted out of office and Holder’s decision is universally recognized as the blunder it is. However, the gears of American Justice turn very slowly and once started, they are very difficult to stop.

The show has begun.

David J. Hentosh

Welcome to Gitmo, Illinois

President Obama promised to close down the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay and found it more difficult to accomplish than expected. He delayed the closing until he could decide where to move the inmates being held there. He is now slowly finding a new home for those inmates.

The federal government bought the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois and close to a hundred suspected terrorists are scheduled to be moved from Gitmo to the center (http://tinyurl.com/y942yu3). The closing of Gitmo, a “must” for Obama’s far-left base, is resulting in the importing of suspected terrorists into the US.

Briefing officials said it was permissible to bring in detainees to the US for prosecution, so we can expect more and more circus trials (and platoons of lawyers) to accompany the populating of the center. The official was quoted as saying “Closing the detention center at Guantanamo is essential to protecting our national security and helping our troops by removing a deadly recruiting tool from the hands of al-Qaeda”.

How will our national security be protected by bringing terrorists into the country? If Gitmo was a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda, how does mingling them with other federal prisoners deter that recruiting?

Since the prison is nearly empty, I expect this will eventually show up on the “new jobs created” list and become a glowing example of the stimulus bill at work. You can bet there are lawyers already camped out waiting for their piece of that stimulus pie – at taxpayers’ expense, of course.

David J. Hentosh