House-Senate must censure trying KSM in NYC
by Bob Hoig, Publisher
Midlands Business Journal
President Barack Obama is doubling down on his riskiest bets.
The worst, possibly the worst in modern U.S. history by a president, is his allowing Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to award terrorists the bonanza of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
That action rates full scale condemnation via official censorship in both the U.S. House and Senate. It seems the only way to stop it.
Government-run health care and energy restrictions through “cap and trade” had seemed to be the worst the Obama Administration could concoct. No more after Holder’s horrible NYC announcement last week.
The question is whether the president’s partners at the gaming table, vulnerable House and Senate Democrats in 2010, want to bet with him.
Do they even understand the play?
The board looks like this:
Manhattan trials for the world’s worst terrorists: Do any vulnerable Democrats really want to stay at the table with Obama and Holder on this pocketful of firecrackers?
There is a corollary to the advice for lawyers in court: Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to. Five years of making our civilian legal system and New York itself the target of murderous terrorists and the al Qaeda movement fits the definition. The dangers are entirely open-ended.
The legal and smart choice uses sanctioned military commissions to try war criminals in a state of the art facility, one that is remote from attack, manipulation, and terrorist propaganda – Gitmo.
Health care reform: “Reform” would seem to be a poor choice of words for a plan than puts the lumbering federal government in charge of 20 percent of the U.S. economy.
Advocacy fails when the models for prediction are debt-ridden Medicare, Medicaid, Post Office and Amtrak federal systems.
Cap ‘n Trade a.k.a. Cap ‘n Tax: No American benefits from higher energy costs, lost jobs and pulling the skids from under the entire economy.
There is the certainty that the world’s major polluting emerging powers, i.e., China and India, have no intentions of playing along. What do Obama’s acolytes in Congress see that others don’t?
As an issue, health care and/or health care insurance “reform” — with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as driving forces, this term always must go into inverted commas — is a bigger issue in Washington, D.C., than among the American public, judging from polls.
Having KSM and his terrorist cohorts in and out of a courthouse only six blocks from Ground Zero of 9/11 leaves us naked to our enemies. Gitmo would serve justice in a seemly setting; a courtroom in Manhattan six blocks from Ground Zero can yield danger and mayhem.
Sure there will be armed guards on roof tops and barricades all over the financial district. The propaganda attack on the United States, however, will be impossible to stop.
Photo ops depicting our impotence can flow from a siege atmosphere while trials are active. There will be Ground Zero not yet rebuilt into anything.
Presumably America does not engage in show trials, so the possibility of acquittal has to be recognized. The militant photo op of all photo ops would be an exonerated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, arm raised, fist clenched, taken from a courtroom vantage point and framed ahead with the emptiness of where the Twin Towers once stood.
President Obama is known to be personally narcissistic. If this trait carries over politically, he will demand his agenda, come what may for his party or the nation.
He apparently cannot be checked until he loses the House and possibly the Senate in 2010. Official censorship will let him know how concerned Americans feel before next November.
November 20, 2009
