Schumer vs. Holder on KSM in Manhattan
John on November 19, 2009 at 8:50 am
Stealing the clip from Hot Air. Just watch (it’s near the end):
That was yesterday. Schumer’s completely on board with Holder now. In fact, his only concern it appears is that NY not get stuck with the cost of security.
However, the Washington Times finds he used to feel quite differently. Back in 2001, just a few weeks after 9/11, he said:
[T]hose who commit acts of war against the United States, particularly those who have no color of citizenship, don’t deserve the same panoply of due process rights that American citizens receive. Should Osama bin Laden be captured alive—and I imagine most Americans hope he won’t be captured alive. But if he is, it is ludicrous to suggest he should be tried in a Federal court on Center Street in Lower Manhattan.
It’s still ludicrous, Chuck.
BTW, that NY Times piece actually throws out the possibility that this trial could last a year! The guy was prepared to plead guilty. What are we going to be doing in court for a year?
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Schumer and almost all elected democrats are on board.
Politically, it’s a remarkably stupid move but politics is a minor factor in the calculus that led to this decision. This was not an impulse, it’s a calculated, deliberative decision. Holder did not make this decision, Obama did. Holder is just the water carrier.
It’s an ideological calculation, partially to satisfy the core base of the far left. But mainly because it’s logically consistent with Obama’s world-view. This is how he believes terrorism should be dealt with and, if it consequentially contributes to the deaths of millions, well that’s simply “our chickens coming home to roost”.
Holder and Obama will continue to blow off questions, most especially pertinent ones.
Many of the democrats supporting this move are committing political suicide before our very eyes, they’re literally lemmings following the Obama administration off the cliff edge of responsibility for materially aiding the enemy. This trial will result in Al Qaeda gaining valuable intelligence, a public forum and the unnecessary deaths of many Americans.
Ironically, it’s their denial about the fundamental nature of the threat we face which prevents them from seeing the two edged nature of the sword the administration is wielding and the not-so-distant political suicide they’re committing.
November 19, 2009 @ 10:05 am