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"Mohammed" is last--so it's a "last name".
But what gets me is that, so disordered is her way of expressing herself, that I don't know if her problem is with these people being specifically tried in New York (which strikes me as a place most unreceptive to the defendants--no?) Or with them being tried in a regular court of law at all (echoes of Bill Kristol, with his recent lack of support for due process in wanting Hasan Nidal immediately punished without trial--but then--I think Kristol is possibly classifiable as special needs. He appears to be congenitally "clue-resistant.")
What a lack of faith in our American justice system (which, granted, she actually does not seem to understand!) But also, what a singular ignorance about the history of terror trials occuring on US soil, successfully. What a lack of understanding about how it would be morally wrong not to try this man in the proper manner--as if to defy the power of terrorism (how stupid that this is being argued, even! to shut him away gives him a power of taboo--he's just a criminal, and we should treat him as such, and say--"In your face--terrorism!" To do otherwise is actually the....weak, scared, and loser way to go.)
Why the fear? Why the assumption that some strain of "political correctness" or whatever will result in people who are guilty as sin of terrorism being set free?
Maybe the certain knowledge that we tortured? Maybe the certain knowledge that at Gitmo, we didn't have proper files on all the people we held? That info we had was derived from illicit means? That we know fuck-ups were our actual "situation-normal"?
We don't know where KSM's kids are, right now. I condemn the way the previous administration so brutally handled our detainees and their associates and the information regarding terror that I should even for a minute have to give a damn about Khalid and the babies that might have been threatened by Americans to try and get him to talk about a fucking non-existant link between Al-Qaeda and Iraq. I can't refute it. Nor pretend I never heard about it.
But Sarah doesn't read newspapers, or magazines, so she can disavow anything.
Sarah Palin doesn't ever think about that. I do. She could be a contender for president--I never could. But I think this country should stand for justice, truth, and due process. She thinks it should "kick ass."
I don't like Sarah Palin very much.
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