Holy crap. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Missouri) on Andrea Mitchell

[kswheels]

"I think it is an insult to those who were brutally murder on September 11th to have the leaders of these cowardly acts sit in a courtroom blocks away from ground zero to reap the full benefits and protections of the US constitution."

Wow...

[grantcart]

1. Yeah who knew that the constitution was a conditional document

[cliffordu]

6. Well, Yeah......

I fucking hate these repub fucking cowards. I truly do.

[bdamomma]

36. what a waste Kit Bond is, him and John Boehner make a good pair.

drunken skunks!! no offense to skunks.

[walldude]

2. Right. we should just throw that useless thing out the window.

Then we could be just like them.

[Warpy]

3. Aw, poor baby, his widdle toesies are getting stepped on

Maybe he shouldn't stick his feet out so far.

Personally, I think the venue was chosen with the real victims of 9/11 in mind.

Otherwise, it could have been in Washington, DC, or on any large military base.

I suppose Mr. Bond wants them tried offshore and in secret so no one will be around to complain about any beatings.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. DEMOCRACY MUST "BEWARE THE ENEMY WITHIN"

REUBLICANS DON'T WANT DEMOCRACY

[HowHasItComeToThis]

7. WHEN IS THIS CLOWN UP FOR RE-ELECTION????

WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO PURGE THE SENATE.

[liberal N proud]

31. He is retiring after the 2010 election

[mrcheerful]

15. No Shit, its why they insist that the US of A is a imperial republic instead of

a democratic republic, that way when pukes decide to take rights away they can say they are doing the republics business.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Actually, sitting in a court a few blocks away is a triumph of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Kit Bond is an idiot.

[tblue]

29. Amen! on both points. nt

[potisok]

32. Correct

Kit Bond is an idiot.

[eppur_se_muova]

46. Well put!

"Kit Bond is an idiot" equally so.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Geez!!!

It's like we've never tried terrorists on our own soil before. We tried the plotters of the first WTC bombing and Timothy McVeigh and I never heard anybody complain about them being tried here in the US as an "insult" to the victims. :crazy:

[kctim]

14. They were American citizens

most Republicans don't believe non-Americans are entitled to the rights and protections granted to American citizens by the US Constitution.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. That may be so

but, given that we have them in our custody, we really have no other legally recognizable means by which we can try them.

[kctim]

23. I agree.

[RaleighNCDUer]

19. Actually, the first WTC bombers were NOT American citizens.

They were international criminals who had their day in court and are now in PRISON for the rest of their natural lives.

[kctim]

25. Ok

then they probably had their panties in a bunch over them also. Either way, most Republican, and many Democrat, friends of mine do not believe non-citizens are entitled to the same constitutional rights and priviledges we are.

[ingac70]

22. The plotters of the first WTC bombing were NOTcitizens. n/t

They just don't want justice. They would rather the US continue to violate international law and have the perps ass raped at Gitmo.

[Viking12]

42. ...while at the saem time arguing that the Constitution is derived from natural law...

If derived from natural law it applies to everyone, if not applicable to everyone then it's not derived from natural law. They can't have it both ways.

[kctim]

43. Everybody wants it both ways

[Wapsie B]

9. You mean they finally got to Cheney?

oh, wait.........

[LynneSin]

10. YOU TELL EM KIT - that whole "innocent until proven guilty" was just for pasty old white men anyways

:grr:

( :sarcasm: for those who didn't figure it out )

[Ikonoklast]

11. Then he has no fundamental understanding of that document.

I would be appalled if I was ever quoted saying something as ignorant as that.

The Constitution is not a 'pick and choose' document, no matter what the Republics say about it.

[sabrina 1]

12. When will they start burning the Constitution in public?

Everyone knows they hate these kinds of regulations on their behavior. They got rid of all the other regulations, why not this one? 'It's just a piece of paper' ~

[Uncle Joe]

33. When they figure out, that it's not the Declaration of Independence.

I was going to post a link to Boehner reading the Constitution which he keeps in his pocket, not knowing that he was actually quoting from the Declaration of Independence, but apparently they scrubbed that video, now you only get "fatal error;" which is kind of apropos considering the Republican Party's record of fatal errors.

[sabrina 1]

44. Lol! n/t

[golddigger]

13. Hmm, looks like somebody is worried about...

what torture procedures were used.

edit for typo

[BR_Parkway]

17. Why not? GLBT citizens are forced to encounter the folks who vote

to strip their rights every day and if we can manage to suck it up, surely the big strong GOPers can

(they really do think everyone's rights are somehow optional, don't they?)

[kswheels]

18. More

"The majority has succeeded in giving (the 9/11 conspirators) constitutional rights that they never hd any business having."

[valerief]

20. Kit Bond? Hmm, wasn't that guy the craggy one on "Wagon Train"? nt

[TacticalPeek]

21. It is an insult to those who die defending the Constitution to have you sit in the Senate.

Bastard.

[FiveGoodMen]

24. Shouldn't that level of disdain for the Constitution be automatic grounds for impeachment?

[kswheels]

26. Yes n/t

[librechik]

27. Too much crack

in this asshole. Throw it out, it's broken!

[Cosmocat]

28. OR - if an R was president, Bond would have said ...

"it is fitting that those who committed these heinous acts will be blocks away from ground zero while they face the fury and wrath of our great justice system. Thank god we have Sarah Palin to keep us safe!"

[B Calm]

30. and this dumb fuck is a United States Senator. . . amazing

[ET Awful]

34. Hey Kit - that Constitution you refer to . . . doesn't it say something about

innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?

Just wondering.

[peacetalksforall]

35. I can't tell you how happy I am about the trials. I hope I'm not offending any

friends or relatives of those who died. This was a criminal act and there was no criminal trial. Rumsfeld or Cheney, don't remember now, said outright that they did not want this act tried with a jury of peers in this country. I remember it so well. I don't have the exact wording, but it implied that the jury might have sympathizers.

Instead it was straight into Afghanistan as a token battle and Iraq on a long ride which was already in the planning way before 9-11.

And now, Republican networks are finally reporting the Cheney-Rumsfeld long term purpose - oil. They are taking it and are writing contracts and getting signatures. It hasn't gone according to the plan - the plan was to invade and march through the country with parade routes filled with people waving our flag and throwing roses. It's way behind the timetable. And, we are not loved.

Not loved, no roses, but limbs and lives fell everywhere.

It, their plan on behalf of the barons, fits together better as each day passes.

[aquart]

38. Yep.

What pisses me off is that we SHOULD dismiss every case where there was torture. And we won't because of assholes like Kit Bond.

[aquart]

37. He wasn't in NYC and I doubt he was in DC.

He is talking about something he knows nothing of.

[Jack Rabbit]

39. I think it is an insult to Americans to allow Kit Bond to serve in the US Senate

Hopefully, the good people of Missouri won't embarrass themselves next time he's up for re-election.

[Strelnikov_]

40. Alcohol is a hell of a drug . . . n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

41. Kit has been drunk for so long that he forgot that Bush and

Cheney had been replaced. He thinks we still live in a republican based dictatorship.

Edit...Kitty

[otohara]

45. Land of Free .... Home of Frightened, Scarred

What a bunch of pussies the republican's are.

They talk tough, the constitution and rights and how brave we are.

[LynnTheDem]

47. "cept that is in FACT what the United States of America is all about.

How deeply tragic that a government official doesn't know this very basic fact.