Civilian Trial or Military Tribunal?

There are a lot of Democrat talking heads gracing the news defending Attorney General Holder’s decision to try KSM in a civilian Federal Court. They are citing rule of law and making America’s system of justice an example to the world as the foundation of their reasoning.

Never mind that Congress passed a law permitting trying enemy combatants in a military court mooting the rule of law argument. A simple test will tell whether or not someone should be tried militarily or not.

Are they a criminal or a terrorist? Certainly what a terrorist does is illegal, but the reason is the difference. A criminal commits an act for personal gain, profit, anger or some twisted psychological bent. A terrorist or enemy combatant acts on behalf of a hostile country or organization, usually foreign that considers the United States an enemy. They may or may not be directly affiliated with that group.

Police are tasked with arresting criminals if they cannot prevent a crime. They bring the case to a district attorney who then decides to go to trial if there is sufficient evidence. Soldiers are tasked with seeking out our enemies and killing or capturing them. In general you could say that if a soldier is the appropriate response and captures an enemy then a military tribunal is appropriate. If a Police Officer is the appropriate response then a civilian trial is appropriate. The exception of this would be that if the act is committed on domestic soil where soldiers are not permitted to operate, then the motivation of the person(s) should be the deciding factor.

Kalhid Sheik Mohammed is a member of Al Qaeda and sworn enemy of the United States. He should not be tried in a civilian court, especially near ground zero. But hanging him publicly there would be OK.

Barefoot and Panty-Scanned

Blacks have achieved racial equality. They can produce presidents as bad as the white ones.

OK, this goofy guy gets on an airplane with an at least somewhat explosive jockstrap and the entire earth goes wacko and orders porn-scanners and everyone has to watch Obama being Leaderly for hours.

So little is necessary to terrorize the world’s hyperpower. A free-lance dingaling secretes a bomb of sorts in his shoe, whereupon the US goes into convulsions and long lines of Americans stand comically barefoot in airports. Dingaling Two popularizes liquid explosives, and so Washington frenziedly confiscates toothpaste. Yes, the world’s hyperpower is afraid of Colgate, with fluoride. Dinglaling Three hides the infernal machine in his skivvies, so Obama makes Firm Pronouncements, and we will now have to undergo examination by panty scanners. Always, over and over, the terrorists have the iniative. The country reacts hugely and predictably.

Won’t the panty scanners be wonderful? Now some affirmative-action federal retard can look at nekkid women all day.

The down-stream consequences may be amazing, tipping the US over the cliff. The prospect is real, methinks, that Al Quaeda will have brought down the world’s hyperpower, afraid of shampoo, for less than a million dollars. You think I am a raving lunatic? Consider:

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Obama’s Counter-terrorism Grade?

Failed airliner attack was tardy wake-up call for spreading al Qaeda menace

29 Dec. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources note that in the past year, Washington was strangely deaf to Saudi, Egyptian and Yemeni warnings that al Qaeda had established itself in Yemen and gained a jumping-off base into the Arabian peninsula and across the strategic Gulf of Aden. The network was now directly linked from Yemeni shores to Osama bin Laden at his new headquarters in Pakistani Baluchistan.

Only two months ago, on Oct. 7, President Barack Obama told the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia: “We’re making real progress in our core mission – to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda and other extremist networks around the world. Because of our efforts, they have not only lost operational capacity, they’ve lost legitimacy and credibility.”

But three days before that speech, the FBI arrested the Chicagoan David Headley on charges of involvement in the terror massacre in Mumbai of November 2008. A month later, US Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan shot dead 13 comrades at the Fort Hood base in Texas. Federal investigators persist in refusing to call the crime an act of terror.

And Yemen has been on US radar since al Qaeda blew up the American destroyer USS Cole in Aden harbor on Oct. 12, 2000 and the CIA and the FBI have maintained a covert presence in this Red Sea country in the past year at least.

US intelligence and anti-terror machinery suffers from a serious disorder when it even failed to take up the Abdulmutallab family’s warnings about their fanatical kinsman.

Eight years after 9/11 no one was yet connecting the dots.

“War, What War?” Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer points put the absurdity of the Obama position on the (shush, don’t say it) War On Terror.

Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has not.

More jarring still were Obama’s references to the terrorist as a “suspect” who “allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device.” You can hear the echo of FDR: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — Japanese naval and air force suspects allegedly bombed Pearl Harbor.”

This is all quite mad even in Obama’s terms. He sends 30,000 troops to fight terror overseas, yet if any terrorists come to attack us here, they are magically transformed from enemy into defendant.

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Official: U.S. Knew for 2 Years of Plane Attack Suspect’s Terror Ties

Hmmm, I have an easy solution.  If they are a known terrorist or have terrorist ties, kill them!  DUH, it’s a no brainer!  Play by the rules they play by or we will never win.  It’s that simple…

From FOXnews.com:

WASHINGTON — An official briefed on the attack on a Detroit airliner says the U.S. has known for at least two years that the suspect in the attack could have terrorist ties.

The official tells The Associated Press that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, has been on a list that includes people with known or suspected contact or ties to a terrorist or terrorist organization.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The list is maintained by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. It includes about 550,000 names.

People on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list are not necessarily on the no-fly list. New York congressman Peter King says Mutallab was not on the no-fly list.