Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial to be moved out of New York City
Nobody in their right mind, other than Barack Obama, thinks that it is a good idea to try the mastermind of the September 11th attack in a criminal court in New York City.
Recently two Democrat senators, Blanche Lincoln and Jim Webb, sent the president a letter which was also signed by Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lindsey Graham asking that the president reconsider moving the trial out of New York City and into a military commission.
And then yesterday Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee– who also knew beforehand that the CIA was going to use waterboarding and asked if it went far enough, before feigning disgust at the practice once it became politically adventurous to do so– stated that the trial should be moved out of New York as well.
Now it appears as if Barack Obama is going to listen to these requests; he has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to begin looking for other places to try the September 11th mastermind. The pressure from his own party became too great and he appears ready to cave in on this foolish idea.
This is good news, but he still seems prepared to try this man in a criminal court with full rights guaranteed under the constitution, and therefor this news isn’t nearly as good as it should be.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed does not deserve constitutional rights. He masterminded an act of war against the United States; he was fighting against the very constitution that is now protecting him. This is unacceptable. Barack Obama has granted this man constitutional rights as a way to show the world that we are better than the terrorists are, he is trying to show the extremists that we are above them, but all he is showing them is that as long as he is president we will be weaker than they are. He is showing the world that he does not take the issue of terrorism seriously.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should not be tried as a criminal, he should be tried in front of a military commission, once he is found guilty he should be hanged.
America's Watchtower 
All I can say to this news, is thank God!
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I know that I not that much against bringing these terrorists to New York at first, but the more I think about it, the more I understand that it is a bad idea. You are right, they are not common criminals, but rather are dangerous terrorists who attempted to harm our country in as great a way as possible. That is considerably different than robbing someone’s house or even murdering someone.
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Especially this man. A case can be made for those such as the Christmas day bomber to be tried in the United States as criminals because they were caught here. (I don’t agree with it, but at least there is somewhat of a case there.) But this man planned an act of war against us, and was caught in the land in which we are fighting. This man should already have been tried in a military commission.
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Wow! a lot of their lefty, progressive ideas are like balloons with the air let out. I just wonder who they will blame for this one. I do still hold out the most minute bit of hope that they will accept responsibility for something, anything!!!
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I think we know who they will blame for this. KSM was a problem that Barack Obama “inherited.”
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