Sen. Kent Conrad: Hey KSM reactionaries…Beat it!


No, seriously.

So now the Speaker of the House and a Democratic Senator from North Dakota have in the span of a week, basically called those who are wary of the propaganda-ready show trial of KSM down the street from Ground Zero, un-American reactionaries who should pack up and leave because they, not us, love America.

Wow. Take that 9/11 families. Incidentally, the rally to protest HoBama’s decision will be on “December 5 at a park adjacent to the Manhattan federal courthouse where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried just blocks from Ground Zero.” You can sign their petition herePam has the story.

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts are well-suited to prosecute al Qaeda terrorists and that “if people don’t believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else.”

Conrad also dismissed a question about the rights of terrorists captured on foreign battlefields and the rules of evidence in terms of a civilian court trial as not serious.

Well of course he did. Honestly people, you and your crazy concerns about the “constitution” and “laws”…ease up off my back about it:

On Capitol Hill on Nov. 19, CNSNews.com asked Conrad: “We’re going to have a civilian trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. If our troops–the evidence against him is going to be found in Afghanistan, there on the battlefield–if our troops need to enter a house and they think that there’s evidence there, should they have to establish probable cause and get a search warrant from a judge first?”

Conrad said: “You’re not being serious about these questions, are you?

Pffft. Evidence.

Maybe we oughta go somewhere else.

(watch the video at the link. I don’t know how to add it here)


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It's interesting to note

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 4:28PM EST (link)

That these libs who so want this trial here, will dismiss constitutional concerns that we know every scumbag lawyer will use to try to get KSM and company off.

It makes me think that if they get too much more power they will just as easily suspend the constitution to I don’t know prosecute people like us for having a differing opinion than their own.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

Hmmm...

thatsright (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 4:51PM EST (link)

That’s a frightening thought.

You know what I was thinking after I posted this, is that, aren’t these Dem and Lib cheerleaders for KSM’s civil trial by dismissing the very real Constitutional issues out of hand saying in effect, “this is very much a show trial because even if any 4th or 5th amendment issues arose, they’d be manipulated do achieve the predetermined result”?

Isn’t that what they’re saying? Holder has already told Graham that even if KSM were to walk or receive a light sentence he’d still be held indefinitely.

NOTHING about this decision makes any sense whatsoever. It is literally a mockery of the rule of law itself.

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"It is literally a mockery of the rule of law itself."

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 5:40PM EST (link)

It’s not mockery…. it’s destruction.

They’re ignoring the law in place for the express purpose of dismantling it all, especially The Constitution and those pesky first two Amendments they ‘love’ so much…… as long as it doesn’t apply to them, of course.

 

I mean not for nothing

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 6:52PM EST (link)

I am not a lawyer, but couldn’t I as a defense attorney stroll in with a video of Holder’s hearing, or Obama making the statement of how they will be tried and found guilty, or never be released, and have a mistrial declared, and continue to have the mistrial declared until I found the right judge, like the douche Hamilton who just got confirmed and then they walk.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

I think Holder did the idiot thing

Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 7:01PM EST (link)

by talking about the case and I’m really worried about KSM going free. I at first thought if that happens Holder and anyone above him and below should stand trial for treason. Now it seems to be more like when rather than if.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

See that's the crazy thing..

thatsright (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 7:05PM EST (link)

among others with this decision, is that he told Graham that even if KSM were acquitted or given a small sentence, we’d keep him here indefinitely ANYWAY.

I’ve asking this question for a week now…THEN WHY TRY HIM AT ALL!

The answer is one of motivation and I don’t know if I’m prepared to hear what that motivation actually is.

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eh..

thatsright (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 7:03PM EST (link)

I am a lawyer and I’d probably have a stunt like that prevented on relevancy grounds, at least at trial.

But, the question of venue is an excellent question as well and one that idiot lawyer for the defense, Fenstermaker, was asking on O’Reilly:

How can KSM get a “fair trial” in NYC with a jury of his “peers”?

These are the kinds of things Holder said he was thinking about but obviously didn’t. The procedural and constitutional questions are so intricate that this “trial” could last a decade.

Russ Cote
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But if you were the defense attorney on this

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 7:26PM EST (link)

Would that “stunt” be something you would try. Also on what appears to be a justification defense (sorry I may watch too much Law and Order with the wife). Isn’t in the defense’s interest to throw as much crap at the wall and see what sticks. It’s not like the lawyers will be brought up on any ethics charges in front of what appears to be very liberal bar associations.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

 
 
 
 
 

Oh absolutely

thatsright (Diary) Wednesday, November 25th at 7:33PM EST (link)

I didn’t think we were just talking hypotheticals.

Without question the defense will try. They’ll try to poison the jury any way they can. By using Holder’s words, Obama’s…anyone who has said more or less that the result in the case is a foregone conclusion.

You have no idea what a circus this is going to be. Seriously. Whatever your wildest imagination can muster right now doesn’t hold a candle to the storm that is about to unfold.

Russ Cote
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