I have had some issues with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) in the past, but holy cow is he ever full of sense right here. When he says that all the arguments against trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on American soil make us look "frightened and scared" to the rest of the world he is absolutely correct. Unfortunately, all the people who are making those arguments are the same people who made a big point of bellowing about how they didn't care what the rest of the world thought about us during the whole Bush presidency. I can't imagine that they give a shit now that we look like GIANT FUCKING PUSSIES WHO CANNOT CROSS THE STREET WITHOUT WETTING OUR PANTS. Which, you know, we are.
Friday, January 29, 2010
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+1000 internets to Anthony Weiner for the idea of letting KSM wander the Rockaways, but who's the idiot that said "Put him on Staten Island"? Was it Scarborough? Is he that dumb?
Does America wear boxers or briefs?
Depends.
I think Bloomy's objection was more that it might inconvenience the Masters of the Universe to hold the trial in lower Manhattan.
But why should it have? Exactly how many terrorism trials have been targeted so far?
I don't blame the NIMBYs as much as I do the architects of the security plans.
I swear I'm not a big wimp, but, just at a convenience level, since this is a federal-level trial that will inevitably entail an enormous security perimeter, is there any real reason not to move it to, you know, somewhere that isn't the most densely fucking populated piece of real estate in the entire United States? Isn't there some nice federal courthouse in, like, the suburbs of Oklahoma City that you could essentially construct the equivalent of the Baghdad Green Zone around with anyone being inconvenienced?
Well, there's that little matter of the Constitution.
Uh, the same Constitution that allowed Tim McVeigh to be tried in Denver for blowing up a building in Oklahoma City?
The Constitution requires trial by an impartial jury in the state and district where the crime was committed. If you can show that an impartial jury is not possible in that district, then it can be moved. That's how McVeigh got moved. And that showing may yet be made here, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Weiner ain't no pussy.
SO OBVIOIS.
OHGODIHAVETERRIBLESPELLINGOFLATE!!!
Go flate? I'll never go flate.