Sarah Palin: “Makes No Sense to Treat an al Qaeda-trained Operative Willing to Die in the Course of Massacring Hundreds of People as a Common Criminal”
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 11, 2010
Sarah Palin on Islamic terrorism: 'It's a war, not a crime spree'
Former Gov. Sarah Palin’s posted Facebook thoughts on how Team Obama is treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day “Underwear Bomber,” reflects how the majority of Americans feel about how Obama and DHS are grossly underestimating radical Muslim terrorists, and in so doing, failing to fully protect America.
Closing Club Gitmo is a BAD idea. Treating bloodthirsty terrorists like they’re regular bad guys on Criminal Minds is a BAD idea. Trying the 9/11 Islamic terrorists, who have bragged about masterminding the infamous jihadist attack on America in 2001, in a civilian court in NYC is a BAD idea.
From Sarah Palin’s Facebook Notes… It’s War, not a Crime Spree:
President Obama’s meeting with his top national security advisers does nothing to change the fact that his fundamental approach to terrorism is fatally flawed. We are at war with radical Islamic extremists and treating this threat as a law enforcement issue is dangerous for our nation’s security. That’s what happened in the 1990s and we saw the result on September 11, 2001. This is a war on terror not an “overseas contingency operation.” Acts of terrorism are just that, not “man caused disasters.” The system did not work. Abdulmutallab was a child of privilege radicalized and trained by organized jihadists, not an “isolated extremist” who traveled to a land of “crushing poverty.” He is an enemy of the United States, not just another criminal defendant.
It simply makes no sense to treat an al Qaeda-trained operative willing to die in the course of massacring hundreds of people as a common criminal. Reports indicate that Abdulmutallab stated there were many more like him in Yemen but that he stopped talking once he was read his Miranda rights. President Obama’s advisers lamely claim Abdulmutallab might be willing to agree to a plea bargain – pretty doubtful you can cut a deal with a suicide bomber. John Brennan, the President’s top counterterrorism adviser, bizarrely claimed “there are no downsides or upsides” to treating terrorists as enemy combatants. That is absurd. There is a very serious downside to treating them as criminals: terrorists invoke their “right” to remain silent and stop talking. Terrorists don’t tell us where they were trained, what they were trained in, who they were trained by, and who they were trained with. Giving foreign-born, foreign-trained terrorists the right to remain silent does nothing to keep Americans safe from terrorist threats. It only gives our enemies access to courtrooms where they can publicly grandstand, and to defense attorneys who can manipulate the legal process to gain access to classified information.
President Obama was right to change his policy and decide to send no more detainees to Yemen where they can be free to rejoin their war on America. Now he must back off his reckless plan to close Guantanamo, begin treating terrorists as wartime enemies, not suspects alleged to have committed crimes, and recognize that the real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor.
- Sarah Palin
Additional information:
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Endre Balogh, Big Government: When Will the Democratic Party Grow Up and Seriously Address National Security?
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The Powers That Be: Distraction: Why the Obama Administration Can’t Connect the Dots and Napolitano Returns to Politics of Fear, Uses ‘T’-Word, May Be Stripped of PC Crown
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: The Dots Connect Upward to Obama and Daily Gut: School Spirit and Daily Gut: Crushing Poverty vs. Crushing Stupidity
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Diary of a Mad Conservative: Charles Krauthammer
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Stop The ACLU: TSA Handcuffs War Correspondent Michael Yon and Aww, How Cute. The Politico Attempts To Provide Cover For Obama Over Terrorist Attack and Thanks For Pushing For Gitmo Releases, Libs! End Up In Attempted Plane Bombings
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