NY Citizens Protest Against Holder and Obama KSM Trial (video)

This protest against Eric Holder and Barack Obama's plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terrorists in New York took place at Foley Square on December 5, 2009. One sign reads, "Why does Obama hate America?" Another sign reads, "Eric Holder = disgraceful and despicable."

KSM Trials Protest, NYC (video)

Dumb Democrat Feinstien Claims KSM Trial Won't Be A Show Trial

Actually, Sen. Feinstien isn't that dumb. She knows the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other four terrorists is nothing but a show trial. She is being disingenuous. People might ask, "What is trying to be 'shown' in this 'show trial?'" AG Eric Holder is trying to make a point that there is no war on terror, 9-11 had nothing to do with Islam and these are just errant individuals who should be treated as common criminals.

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If Eric Holder Was Counting On German Evidence To Try KSM, He Is Out of Luck

Germany is refusing to allow any evidence they gathered against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants. Germany will not participate in any trial where the defendant could receive the death penalty.

FOX News reported:

A German government official says the nation will send an observer to the upcoming trial in New York of the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and four accused henchmen.

Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty.

Three of the four suicide pilots who carried out the attacks had lived and studied in the northern German city of Hamburg. Germany, like the rest of Europe, except for Belarus, does not execute criminals.

Kruathammer slams the decision to give Khalid Shaikh Mohammed the rights of an American citizen (video)

Charles Kruathammer is at his best in the video embedded below. He eviscerates President Obama's and AG Eric Holder's decision to give the terrorists responsible for 9-11 the same rights as American citizens.

“I’m not sure that FDR, or Lincoln, or any of our war presidents, or Johnson, or Kennedy would take a combatant and give him the constitutional rights of an American citizen and give him a trial in civilian court. That doesn’t happen.”

Kruathammer: Giving KSM the rights of an American Citizen is Unconscionable


Allahpundit had this:

“Contrary to liberal myth, military tribunals aren’t a break with 200-plus years of American jurisprudence. Eight Nazis who snuck into the U.S. in June 1942 were tried by a similar court and most were hanged within two months. Before the Obama Administration stopped all proceedings earlier this year pending yesterday’s decision, the tribunals at Gitmo had earned a reputation for fairness and independence…"

Obama Thinks Terrorists Are Common Criminals

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

There is a big difference of opinion between conservatives and liberals about how to deal with terrorism. Conservatives think Islamic terrorism is a systemic problem bred by a large branch of Islam that takes an extremely literal view of the Koran. Conservatives believe terrorism can only be prevented by a large scale war on terror that addresses the problem globally. Team Obama and liberals believe terrorist acts are isolated events committed by lunatics that should be treated as criminals. They don't believe that terrorist acts committed by Muslims have any strong connection to their religion. They think terrorists are just deranged individuals that happen to be of the Islamic faith. This is why you never hear the words "war on terror" spoken by anyone in the Obama administration. This explains their opposition to enhanced interrogation techniques. They want terrorists treated as common criminals with all the rights accorded by our judicial system. Not surprisingly, they want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men in a civilian New York court for the crime of plotting the 9-11 attack on the US.

WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, the United States attorney general announced Friday.

The political correctness of liberals and the Obama administration will not allow them to accept the fact that Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists are not a criminal organization. They are a religious group with tens of thousands of followers supported morally and financially by millions of like-minded fellow Moslems. Nothing of this scale can be solved by any criminal justice system. Trying these terrorists in a civilian court may grantee they get all the rights our judicial system accords, but who will grantee the rights of the victims of these attacks? It is not impossible to imagine our liberal court system could actually set these monsters free on some technicality. After all, OJ Simpson walked.