Gitmo Trial PR Strategy: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Co. vs. the 9/11 Families

 If the government had a case they would have prosecuted years ago.   The only evidence they have was extracted under torture, the records of which have been destroyed.   A total sham.

    –bks

The nine family members sure look like a hanging “jury,” don’t they?  Betcha their disposition to find the defendants guilty was a factor in their selection as guests of the U.S. government.  In fact it’s likely that the defendants themselves were selected not for their actual guilt but for their willingness to proclaim their guilt.  Didn’t Mussaoui – who may have only heard about the plot – declare his guilt from the witness stand?It’s significant that American justice has deteriorated so much that kangaroo courts have supporters who say that at least they can be relied on for a guilty verdict . . . as if that were something to brag about!  The butcher’s thumb is on the scale but heck, a sale is a sale, right?  What a corrupt mess.The reason the trials are held in Guantanamo rather than in New York is that the defendants are guilty.  Imagine if the hanging jury of 9/11 families ends up with misgivings about the process.  Let’s say Hanging Juror #1 and Hanging Juror #8 both demur from the findings on procedural grounds? 

The Fed clearly don’t have a case, so the prisoners must be released.   And then we can declare an end to the Phony War On Terror.   Also, John Walker LIndh should be pardoned immediately.

     –bks

 I asked for an answer…..I got one. I thank you for that.  Release them you say?  Sure…that’s realistic.

 The strength of the case, I would suggest, had nothing to do with not having it in NYC. It was more the LACK of strength in the Americans making the decision to not have the trial in NYC. But all that is beside the point….in the real world, except in certain spots only flirting with reality.  The Party that releases them can forget about the White House for a 100 years.  Please, don’t get me wrong…I support neither of these parties. They both are criminals, in my eyes. But that is all beside the point.  Release them?  Go ahead….the release of these guys is just what the world needs. We need it like we need more drones being fired. 

The judgment of history kept Nixon from using atomic bombs in Vietnam.  He wanted to nuke ‘em, but Kissinger talked him out of it.  Historical players don’t live just in their own times but in the future as well.  Nixon’s reputation – such as it is – owes whatever good grace it retains to Kissinger’s shrewd counsel.  We certainly can get away for the time being with rounding up the usual suspects and ignoring the standards of justice that protect the rights of a common criminal.  But we’re about to hand the Muslim world a moral victory in addition to the real possibiility that whoever really did the 9-11 attacks got away with it.  It was not just a spectacular crime, but one that was so well-executed that we might was well accuse Bruno Hauptmann of being the mastermind.  Sloppy justice – who cares?  This thing has been open for 10 years, and we need closure.  Nixon’s Peace With Honor was averted at the last minute.