My early-morning walk to the bottom of the driveway to pick up a couple of newspapers was well rewarded. Coffee in hand, I gathered the Courier News and The Star-Ledger. The front- page story in one of them was enough to warm any American’s heart in this sub-freezing cold:
“New York ruled out as site for terror trial,” it read. The jihadist bum Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators will not be tried in lower Manhattan, after all. It looks like the American democracy’s pushback against some of the nonsense continually seeping out of the White House has finally taken hold.
Even Democrats on The Hill are also resisting the Obama/Holder decision to provide Constitutional rights to enemy combatant nut jobs who are working hard to destroy that very document. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairwoman of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence and who is privy to top secret information, strongly opposes the trial’s venue in New York City.
Ever since the day that Senator-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts came on the scene, matters seem to have taken a turn for the better. I’ve never liked one-party control of both the White House and Congress, no matter who is in charge.
But don’t expect the Obama/Holder camp to relent very much. What it should but won’t do is to remit KSM & Company to military authorities for trial as enemy combatants under the code of military justice.
Thanks for reading. Keep warm and give thanks for what you are and what you have.
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