Millennium Bomber’s Lenient Sentence Reversed . . . By the Ninth Circuit?

From my post at my website http://www.truthandcommonsense.com
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I wanted to speak to this when I first heard about the decision to try the terrorists in civilian court. You have to understand, regardless of the level and the seriousness of the court, it is still a political animal to some degree. Only lefties with pie in the sky ideals miss this. To make it worse, civilian courts are not really designed to effectively prosecute difficult terror cases. Can it? Sure, but only with all the potential pitfalls built in, like in this case a judge not sentencing a man bent on murdering many to the time in prison that he deserved. In this case the problem may be rectified- or not. Remember, he can and will appeal.

I was talking with my friend about this issue of civilian verses military trials pertaining to KSM and his group. I may have been wrong, but at one point the government dropped the military charges before filing the civilian ones, leaving a period of time where KSM could have argued for bond or maybe a direct release from custody. As much as the left hated the Patriot act you would think they would complain about a man being held without charges. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States)

Not only is this an issue, but I’m sure there are many others that can be exploited by a smart legal team of lawyers who have more love for the argument than for justice. And believe me, there are a ton wanting a shot at this case. Can you imagine the amount of publicity you would receive for getting off a terrorist or exposing the weakness of the government’s case. Speaking to that, I understand KSM recanted his confession. If that is so, in a civilian court that statement is out. No Miranda, no statement. I’ve been on the wrong end of that decision a few time myself. Even when I was doing it right some judge decided, on his own, I didn’t read them time, or at the right time, or clear enough or… You get my point. We spent years studying the newest case law trying to stay up to date on the rulings. I can tell you KSM’s rights were violated, which means anything gained is out and will never see the inside of a courtroom. It can’t. The government cannot say he has the rights of a citizen in one breath and enter tainted evidence in the next.

Now Federal court is a little more free wheeling than state court in its approach to guilt/innocence and the handling of evidence, but torture trumps all cards here. If the government complains that torture is wrong, and dumbass Obama has voiced that very thing, then he’s just handed the defense all they need to get any statements and anything discovered from those statement thrown out. Add to the mix press sectary Gibbs’s statement about how KSM will have a fair trial and a wonderful hanging, you can bet finding a jury or a venue to hold the trial is fast disappearing. The spokesman for the PRESIDENT just condemned a legally innocent man to death! AAAGGGH!!! Can they be any more stupid?

The funniest part of this whole debacle is that KSM understood the military tribunals and accepted his fate. I think he actually found respect in the way we snatched him, held him, interrogated him and got what we needed. He respected the power and commitment we had. Something I think surprised both KSM and Osama. In the beginning they were dealing with the prior Democratic administration and were convinced it had no stomach for a fight. Imagine their amazement when they realized they weren’t dealing with cigar tube waving Clinton anymore as bombs rained down around them!

As I write this I understand the Christmas bomber is talking now after cutting a deal with the prosecutors. Stephen Hayes pointed out the obvious. If he cut a deal that means we gave something up. He tried to murder over three hundred people in a plane and an untold number on the ground and we gave him a deal that allowed him to tell us what he was telling us before the government agents decided to read him Miranda.

Now that’s just stupid on a scale many will have trouble measuring. (Do you notice that only during Democratic administrations the world sees us as fools and simpletons? Hmmm…) For those of you who think this is just a bumpy patch, hold on because you haven’t seen anything yet. Wait till the motions start, and the hearings, and the media blitz. With Obama’s legal team at the DOJ being so out of step, a good team of defense lawyers will tie them up in knots so tight you will be able to strum them like a guitar!

Man, 2012 can’t come quick enough.

archer52 on February 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM