Mike Bloomberg’s Chief of Police spoke to the New York Young Republican Club last week, and he told the stunned audience that the Obama White House never consulted with the NYPD or Mayor Bloomberg before announcing a decision to try Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in lower Manhattan:
“We were not consulted,” Kelly said tersely of the decision. He stated that the trial “will raise the threat level of this city,” a threat that “will not fade any time soon.” And it affects more than lower Manhattan, we learned. “We will have to look at the entire city as a potential target.”
Via the Water Cooler
Kelly went on to tell the crowd that it is possible the trial(s) will be stopped before it starts. He reportedly cited a recent item from Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, who suggests Congress might block the trials before they get underway. Given the changed political climate in the wake of Scott Brown’s Massachusetts win however, it’s also possible that the White House could change course before Congress requires it.
Commissioner Kelly says that there’s no question these trials put New York at much greater risk for terrorist attack. That’s intuitive, but the White House denies it. Furthermore, even the Democrats in New York’s Congressional delegation agree that the city is currently unable to pay the security costs associated with the trial. Given the volatile political climate, can swing-seat Democrats in the tri-state area (including Kirsten Gillibrand) afford the political risk of having a trial underway (or about to start) in November, 2010?
At this point I’m willing to bet the administration changes plans before frightened Democrats force them to.
Click over to Kerry Picket at the Water Cooler for much more on this
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It is unconscionable...
IronDioPriest (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 4:48PM EST (link)… and grossly irresponsible, for the administration to decide to try these people in criminal courts in the first place. To have done so without heeding the impact such a farce might have on local law enforcement is, in my opinion, an unforgivable offense.
These people should not be at the helm of this nation. They are a menace to the future.
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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Enemy War Criminal
Beaglescout (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 8:59PM EST (link)Since when are enemy war criminals given American civil liberties and civilian criminal trials? Aren’t they supposed to be treated like prisoners of war, only worse?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Since when?
IronDioPriest (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 9:43PM EST (link)Since Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the rest of the vapid Leftists seized control of government. That’s when.
Question is, what do we do about it? We can and should hope and work for a positive electoral outcome in November. But if that falls short, we still have people at the helm of government whose primary allegiance is not to the Constitution or the Republic.
What will be our recourse, if efforts in November fall short, or the Socialists move to solidify their power before then?
Those are the kind of questions I’ve been asking myself lately.
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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Unfortunately, incompetence
Warrior (Diary) Tuesday, January 26th at 11:28AM EST (link)does not fall under the rubric of “High Crime & Misdemeanors” or we could just impeach TEH ONE…
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
You will never know...
wayneepalmer Tuesday, January 26th at 1:35PM EST (link)…how much I wish that 3rd plane had hit the Capitol Building instead of the Pentagon.
*sigh*
True peace between two enemies has only ever been acheived when one side has utterly defeated the other…if you doubt this truth visit Nagasaki sometime.
Didn't NYC voters
garbear Monday, January 25th at 4:59PM EST (link)say they wanted this kind of Administration decision when they voted for Obama?? After all, the Obama Administration’s decision to do this is no surprise. One of the things he and the Democrats slammed Bush about during the 2008 campaign was the Bush Administration’s incorrect (in Obama’s view) treatment of terrorists.
Votes matter. New Yorkers need to be reminded of that.
5++ [nt]
Bill S (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:13PM EST (link)“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
So you voted for him too? -nt-
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 6:06PM EST (link)Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
If it were me, I'd insist
Steph C (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:06PM EST (link)that if they’re going to go forward with this travesty of justice, why not hold the trials in Washington, D.C. since it was also a successful target of the terrorists.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
Because
BlueLandRed (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:07PM EST (link)I’d like to see the aXXhXlXs convicted and I really don’t believe that any New Yorker that lived through 9/11 is going to be swayed by any defense argument nor are they going to have much sympathy to any claims of excessive force that might have occurred in Gitmo.
Hey, if you're going to fight a war on terror
Tbone (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:24PM EST (link)you might as well do it where there are plenty of good restaurants available during the recesses.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Are you really surprised?
piratecoastbucs Monday, January 25th at 5:51PM EST (link)Expecting a liberal to do homework on something and truly research consequences is humorous.
One more thing...
piratecoastbucs Monday, January 25th at 5:52PM EST (link)At what point during this ‘trial’ will we realize that those responsible should be tried for treason?
What happened in Iraq
schooky Monday, January 25th at 5:53PM EST (link)today is the perfect example of why this trial should be held in military court and away from the press!
Important topic and good analysis
partyof1 Monday, January 25th at 6:00PM EST (link)and sorry to go off topic, but may I suggest that the good contributors at RedState look at Dick Morris’ latest column. Time may be a factor.
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2010/01/25/pelosi-and-reid-plot-secret-plan-for-obamacare/
Why Does Obama H8 NYC So?
furious (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:02PM EST (link)…first he panicked all of lower Manhattan with Scare Force One.
Then he’s driving down the market 500+ pts last week threatening Wall Street.
Now he’s bringing back KSM to gloat over the hole in the ground where the Towers stood.
I’m sorry, yeah, NYC voted overwhelmingly for Obama, but nobody deserves this kind of abuse.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
NY has the worst case of buyer's remorse in the nation.
Veronica (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 8:09PM EST (link)Not interested in why he hates NY .. just know he despises the City.
I’m sick and tired of trying to anaylze his psychosis.
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After the Air Force 1 flyover photo-op debacle
conservative_faction Monday, January 25th at 7:05PM EST (link)you’d think that this administration might consider running this one by the city. One hard lesson after another, this administration never seems to learn from their mistakes. Problem is that for each mistake that BHO and his crew make, that many more lives end up in jeopardy.
Referring to the Obama administration as amateuristic is an insult to amateurs. Ill informed, ignorant, and dangerous novices pretty much sums it up.
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” — Ronald Reagan
This administration never seems to learn
xenothan Tuesday, January 26th at 7:50AM EST (link)from their mistakes? To learn from a mistake you actually have to admit to having made one. Something this administration has yet to or will ever do.
Exactly, xenothan
LDahl752 (Diary) Tuesday, January 26th at 10:57AM EST (link)When will We the People learn to accept their superior intelligence?
They know so much better what is good for us than we do. How did I ever live this long without the government making all my decisions for me?
If a terrorist or a few arrive in a NYC neighborhood and take some hostages during the trial just to attact attention to themselves and their “cause,” how will the administration explain that? What if the hostages are killed, along with some of those fine NYC policemen? Will anyone hold Holder accountable?
Linda D, Henderson NV
No one in the dinosaur media
Warrior (Diary) Tuesday, January 26th at 11:41AM EST (link)ever holds him accountable, that’s why. And that’s why, after the abject failure of liberal policies for nigh on 50 years now, not only do we still listen to liberals about anything, WE STILL HAVE LIBERALS IN POWER.
Every school child in America should be forced to read Thomas Sowell’s “Vision of the Annointed” in which he chronicles chapter and verse the total disasters wrought in this country by failed liberal policies of the past several decades.
Only by getting a free pass from the media, and because of a dumbed-down population brought to you courtesy of the teachers’ unions, are these cretins even allowed to show their faces in public. A rational, informed and savvy citizenry would have run these charlatans out of town on a rail long ago.
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Bloomberg's silence is telling that he probably made a deal.
barrypopik (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 8:54PM EST (link)Why tell NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and the 9-11 victims’ families? Just go ahead with the progressive agenda; people don’t matter when there’s the greater good to think of.
If George W. Bush were to do this, every Democrat politician in New York (including Mayor Bloomberg) would give Bush hell.
Obama does it and we hear crickets chirping.
As I’ve said here before, I believe that Bloomberg and Obama cut a deal. Obama didn’t endorse the NYC candidate for mayor in exchange for a few things.
New York’s Democrats have done much lately that serves as a stick in the eye to the people who voted for them. Obamacare will cost NY at least one billion a year and no NY legislator should have voted for it.
I moved out of NYC three years ago.
So did a few others
livefreenh Tuesday, January 26th at 5:38AM EST (link)and what you have left now is, well, the Left. And no one is Left to pay the bills because the affluent Left is also leaving because they didn’t sign up for that.
This happened in California, which is why the movie stars are not living in Hollywood any more, but instead, places like Arizona, Nevada, and other states. California is about to become the first State that fails.
As goes California, so goes the nation.
Is this called
livefreenh Tuesday, January 26th at 5:35AM EST (link)…an “unfunded mandate”? Or do they call it something else?
After all, words do matter[tm].