Sunday, November 22, 2009
KSM In NYC
The best round up on this situation courtesy of Andy McCarthy:
"Our enemies will be given a full-blown civilian trial with all the rights of the American citizens they are sworn to kill. They will get a year or more to sift through our national defense secrets. They will have wide latitude to turn the case into a trial of the Bush administration - publicizing information about anti-terrorism tactics that leftist lawyers will exploit in their quest for war crimes prosecutions in foreign courts against current and former U.S. officials.
In the military system, we could have denied them access to classified information, forcing them to accept military lawyers with security clearances who could see such intelligence but not share it with our enemies. In civilian court, the Supreme Court has held an accused has an absolute right to conduct his own defense. If KSM asserts that right - as he tried to do in the military commission - he will have a strong argument that we must surrender relevant, top-secret information directly to him. And we know that indicted terrorists share what they learn with their confederates on the outside.
Finally, as policy, the administration's decision is perverse. A half-century of humanitarian law, beginning with the Geneva Conventions, sought to civilize warfare. To receive enhanced protection, combatants must adhere to the laws of war and refrain from targeting civilians. Under Obama-logic, the Cole bombers get a military commission while the 9/11 savages are clothed in the majesty of the Bill of Rights.
So here's the message to terrorists: If you kill thousands of civilians, we will give you better rights than if you attack military assets. That is dangerously irresponsible."
This show trial is strictly political in nature. KSM will spend the rest of his life behind bars in the US regardless of the outcome here. This trial is strictly red meat pay back for Obama's supporters who want revenge against the Bush administration. It will also act as a suitable shiny bauble distraction while the balance of the progressive agenda gets ram roded through the Congress.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....
Posted by Country Squire at Sunday, November 22, 2009 0 comments
Quote Of The Day
"We are all time travellers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour."
Posted by Country Squire at Sunday, November 22, 2009 0 comments
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
My Kind Of Skeet Shooting
Posted by Country Squire at Saturday, November 21, 2009 0 comments
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This Is Cute
I was never much of a Lego fan but this is too cool:
Let your imagination run wild! Seems like the perfect Christmas stocking stuffer.
H/T Boing Boing
Posted by Country Squire at Saturday, November 21, 2009 0 comments
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So, I've Been Gone For A While....
Needless to say, I would rather have been posting on my blog. But Noooooo, I've been in the hospital with pneumonia instead. I haven't really felt like posting and seem, beyond my obvious physical issues, to be suffering from some sort of Obama malaise. God save us all from this man and his progressive agenda for our country.
Posted by Country Squire at Saturday, November 21, 2009 2 comments
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