July 21, 2009
Terrorists are terrorists, not criminals. Now, say it with me, Obama.
I guess we’re moving forward with the bad idea of treating terrorists like common criminals, again:
The Obama administration on Monday said it preferred that detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be tried in criminal courts, but that some suspected terrorists in less-prominent cases or in cases with weaker evidence could go before military tribunals.
An interim report by a presidential task force reviewing U.S. detention policy laid out for the first time the means by which Justice and Defense department lawyers will determine whether the 229 detainees remaining at Guantanamo get criminal or military trials. The approach could rile civil liberties groups, which prefer all detainees be tried in criminal courts.
Well, when the next terrorist attack happens on American soil, plotted and executed by one of the former residents of Hotel Gitmo, we’ll know who to blame. Barack Hussein Obama will have American blood on his hands. I hope he can live with that guilt.
As I have said before, we should not treat terrorists the same way we treat criminals. This is really the brilliant plan they are going with to deal with Gitmo? I guess that’s what happens when the president pledges to close the place within a year without a plan.
What’s the end result? Are we going to house them in our prison system? Watch out, that prison rape might just violate their Constitutional rights. But, the truth is, pushing them through the criminal justice system is just a way to release them. Once they are afforded all of the rights that American citizens are, how likely do you think it is they’ll actually be convicted? This is the country that couldn’t put OJ Simpson away after he murdered his wife and her boyfriend.
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