Why are Republicans so hopping mad about trying 9/11 suspects???
Why aren’t they happy that these guys will finally be put on trial for their crimes??
They keep saying that it will be the United States that will be the real “victim” – that it will be put on trial – that Bush & Cheney – and his administration – will be the real culprits that will be put on trial.
Let me see – if you’re not guilty of a crime, then you shouldn’t be worried, right? Just like the rationale for spying on millions of Americans – You shouldn’t really care if you’re not talking to Al Quaeda, right? Privacy-Shmivacy, you’re supposed to care more about catching terrorists, blah blah blah.
Personally, I honestly don’t think Obama will allow anything that the U.S. did wrong to be put “on trial”. If Obama really, REALLY cared about the rule of law, Bush and Cheney – and his whole g-d administration of cronies, would have been thrown in jail a VERY LONG TIME AGO.
Obama is really probably doing this to re-build our standing among the world’s nations of law-abiders. He is trying to prove that:
- We don’t torture prisoners
- We put people on trial before we lock them away in a prison
- We follow the rule of law
- We value human rights
That’s all. He’s not interested in what we bleeding-heart liberals want. He’s apparently much more interested in what the rest of world wants.
It’s not that that’s a bad thing. It’s just that it’s not enough.
The last decade under Republicans has been nothing less than a g-d living nightmare for me.
It wasn’t enough that every racist, facist idiot had their right to OPENLY HATE with full-blown protection of the pResident and his cronies. It wasn’t enough that they made sure that every law protecting minorities and the oppressed was over-turned, annulled or repealed (not to mention the Magna Carta, the protection for those with disabilities, your miranda rights, etc etc). It was the very fact that the last administration pushed to make it “cool” to be a scary, hateful, vindictive, violent, sexist, law-breaking, intolerant buffoon – who could also wrap himself in a flag and call himself “a patriot”.
That’s what it has been like for the past decade – and it still isn’t changing.
By ignoring the real criminals from the prior administration, you are looking the other way, while trying instead to make yourself look like a champion of “fighting terrorists” by going forward with a much-needed public trial for the 9/11 crimes against us.
I sincerely doubt there will be any way we will see the real victims of 9/11 allowed to speak out about how the crimes against them were politicized to go to war with two nations and to shred our nation’s sacred Constitutional rights by passing the Patriot Act.
We need to make sure that we don’t just push for a real trial for 9/ll terrorists – but that we put the REAL terrorists behind bars, too.
