New York City Has Not Forgotten 9-11 Horrors, Mr. President (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 16, 2009
Firemen continue to fight the fires that sprout up from within the rubble of the World Trade Center in this September 19, 2001 file photo. (REUTERS/PA2 Tom Sperduto/US Coast Guard)
New York City has not forgotten the horrors of September 11, Mr. President, even if you have. And they see through your feeble, misguided efforts to bring 9-11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others, to NYC for a civilian trial.
The president’s attempt to blame the Bush administration, saying that it is for justice for these self-proclaimed monsters, and campaign on that for a second term is transparent and despicable.
Kevin McCullough’s essay summarizes perfectly how America feels about this, how New Yorkers feel about this decision.
From Kevin McCullough, Townhall.com: NYC to Obama: No You Won’t:
The Obama administration grossly underestimated the response of the American people in it’s decision to try war-field combatants as common thieves in criminal courts handed down this week by Attorney General Holder. The American people were also not impressed that President Obama ducked responsibility in calling it a “prosecutorial” decision. The American people see the waste that these trials will be, and the harm they could generate by allowing them to proceed. Yet if all these things are true of Americans at large, the residents of NYC realize them in greater magnification.
Realizing that any criminal proceedings to move forward would take place on the same 13 by 2 mile island where the single biggest act of war against our nation was ever committed, New Yorkers feel strongly that such enemy combatants, taken directly off the battlefields, should never be afforded Miranda and other rights associated with being citizens of the United States.
President Obama and Attorney General Holder have also grossly mistaken the ferocity with which this case will bubble up and that the inevitable media circus that will ensue will doom the welfare of America in multiple ways.
These trial proceedings will reopen the still mending emotional, psychological, and physical wounds of 9/11. In deciding with such reckless abandon to make a political pay-off to the far left, and the radical Islamic sympathizers they ignorantly embolden, President Obama is ripping the stitches out of the hearts of those that have wondered if closure will ever come. When the Attorney General promises court room cameras and complete transparency of the proceedings, he seems to ignore the possibility of radicals on camera shouting inaudible commands, jibes, and insults at those in the room as well as those sitting in caves across the globe.
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The proceedings are an unnecessary move on the part of the administration to try these particular four terrorists at all. They have all confessed, and even bragged, on the record, of their exploits and parts played in the single worst moment in America’s history. With on-the-record confessions, the seeking of the death penalty was insured through military tribunal.
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The proceedings are a not-so-veiled attempt to continue to throw negative attention on to the previous administration. In a move that gives birth to crass classlessness, the real endgame of this matter is to reveal military and intelligence secrets for the public and our enemies to judge for themselves as to their legitimate use. The goal of Attorney General Holder in essence becomes the beginning of the re-election campaign for President Barack Obama, and to create a way for George Bush to still be part of the discussion when the trial finally becomes a reality two to three years from now…
Sept. 11 Mastermind to Face Trial in New York
Insider’s view perspective of how terrorists view America… excerpt from Andrew McCarthy’s book Willful Blindness.
From Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online: ‘Bring my lawyer! — That’s what’s so beautiful about America.’:
…[Puerto Rican jihadist Victor] Alvarez would have only two choices. “Number one you talk,” begging to be released and handing up “Muslims, terrorists.” The “second choice” was the “hard” but rewarding path of praying for the strength—“Oh Allah, make me strong. Let them cut me to pieces!” It was the path of defiantly chanting, “There’s no God but Allah.” To anneal him in fortitude, Siddig promised that if Alvarez were in jail, he would not be abandoned. After all, Alvarez need only look around him, that very day in that very safehouse, to see that the World Trade Center bombers had not been abandoned:
What happens? The trial is gonna come. They gonna find you guilty. You’re already guilty. “You pig”—for being Muslim. But your brothers outside work for you. Now, we will, insha Allah [God willing], free Mahmud [Abouhalima], Nidal [Ayyad], all of them, insha Allah, insha Allah!
Choosing America as an enemy was not, however, without its advantages. Amir Abdelgani advised his confederates that, if arrested, “Nobody talk until seeing his lawyer.”
“You understand,” Siddig echoed. “Tell them, ‘I don’t know. I’m not talking to you. Bring my lawyer.’ Never talk to them. Not a word. ‘My lawyer’—that’s it! That’s what’s so beautiful about America.”
,font color=”red”>UPDATE, NOVEMBER 20, 2009… Obama now throws AG Eric Holder under the bus:
Gateway Pundit: Weak. Obama Says It Was Holder’s Decision to Send Terrorists to New York For Trial (Video)
Related reading:
John M. O’Hara, Big Government: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Terror Trials in the Big Apple
And so it goes in Shreveport: Eric Holder Defends His Decision to Bring KSM to New York City
Stop The ACLU: Oops! Americans Overwhelmingly Disagree With Obama On Civilian KSM Trial
Track-A-’Crat: History Is Bunk
Gateway Pundit: 9-11 Terrorists Ready to Rock New York City In Terror Show Trials and Flashback: Obama Says KSM Will Get “Full Military Trial” (Video) and Smart Power… 9-11 Mastermind Will Face Trial in NY Civilian Court.
Charles Krauthammer, Real Clear Politics: Explaining Away Mass Murder
NRO: ‘Bring my lawyer! — That’s what’s so beautiful about America.’
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Rudy Giuliani: Obama’s Shocking Decision Is Dangerous, Irresponsible to Try 9-11 Terrorists As Common Criminals in NYC (video) and NYC Will Be a Living Hell During 9-11 Terrorist Mastermind’s Travesty of a Civilian Trial, Thanks to Obama and 9/11 Remembrance: Rena Sam-Dinnoo, Rest in Peace
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Imams order beheading of Geert Wilders
HillBuzz: For our friend Jane, we will do everything in our power to make sure Obama suffers at the ballot box for what he’s doing to New York
Logistics Monster: Sarah Palin’s Reaction To The 9/11 Terrorist Trials In NYC
Gathering of Eagles NY: Candidates for Impeachment: Eric Holder and Barack Obama
Sister Toldjah: KSM’s NYC show trial and how AQ will be paying close attention
Blue Crab Boulevard: The Obama Incentive Program
Nice Deb: Confirmed: NYC Show Trial Will Be Platform For Terrorist Propaganda and Video:Senator Sessions Questions Atty. Gen. Holder + Latest Polls and More and Rep Pete Hoekstra on KSM Terror Trial, Fort Hood Shooting. and Video: Reactions To Obama Administration’s Decision To Try Terrorists In NYC
The Powers That Be: Civil Trial for Khalid Mohammed Puts Obama on Sheikhy Ground
On My Watch: Obama to Terrorists: Have a New York Radical Muslim Platform
Hot Air: Webb: Criminal trials for 9/11 terrorists a bad idea and Feds dropped inquiry into Hasan’s contacts with jihadis because … he didn’t seem violent and Why was Hasan still in the Army?
Michelle Malkin: Bombshell: Obama bringing KSM to NYC for trial; former Bush AG Mukasey to respond at Federalist Society this afternoon
VotingFemale Speaks! Obama will Torture New Yorkers; Will Try 911 Terrorist War Fighters as common criminals; sets up their walking free on basis of treatment as war fighters
Atlas Shrugs: NYC Dhimmi Mayor Mike Hosts World Trade Center Bomb Plotter SIRAJ WAHHAJ “Unindicted conspirator” called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists,” and “all Americans eventually become Muslim”
The Anchoress: 800,000 Converts from Islam?
Vets On The Watch: KSM- Coming To A City Near You
USA Today: Plans to try 9/11 suspect in NYC draw fire
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Consider the fact that if they are found guilty and sent to a supermax prison in Illinois, they could be allowed visitors.
I would like to see the definition of “supermax”.
IMO, this will turn into a circus demeaning the Bush administration’s policies on handling POW’s.
There was no civilian court involved in prosecuting the Nazi’s.
Obama has yet again removed himself from the fray.
His ignorance of the American People’s intelligence will be his downfall.
Ya think he will ever BOW to U.S.?
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Try them in military court!