On April 18, 1943 President Roosevelt ordered the ENTIRE 339th Fighter Squadron of specially equipped long range P-38G's, to fly at heights of no more than 50 feet, avoiding sight of all land, to fly from Guadalcanal to Bouganville where our intelligence knew Yamamoto would be arriving by plane to inspect the troops.
FDR had him murdered in the sky.
He did so because Pearl Harbor was an act of war, not a car theft.
While Barack Obama may not believe we ARE in a war, since it would destroy his entire world view, he certainly knows that 9/11 was an act of war. Thus he ought to know that this crime is not for 12 "peers". Indeed if we could find 12 peers of these people they would all rise up and kill the judge and all in the courtroom, ...for starters.
SPECULATION:
Barack Obama intends to use this trial to kick off international AND national torture trials of Bush administration officials to blacken the republican party as these attackers find themselves in trials in which they both can reject the evidence brought on by water boarding, etc, and publicize their use by direct evidence. They will then, facing some kind of dismissal on the major charges be found guilty under some Al Capone like charge, but the damage will have been done and at the very least men like Dick Cheney and others who served this nation to secure the people themselves will find themselves under international indictment.
The NYT will have headlines and sell papers every day
HuffPo will glorify the results
HRW will be orgasmically screeching
Obama will have fended off political disaster
Paranoia on my part? The only enemy Obama means ill to are those who can do him no harm but political harm.
None of this changes the objective reality. These attackers deserved the fate of Yamamoto. But in custody now, and bereft of any valuable information, they should be left to rot in isolation until the day the war ends (whenever that is determined to have happened) and then brought to trial as was Homma
UPDATE:
Think I'm paranoid?
I'm not the only one, so is the AG who tried the blind sheik
FDR had him murdered in the sky.
He did so because Pearl Harbor was an act of war, not a car theft.
While Barack Obama may not believe we ARE in a war, since it would destroy his entire world view, he certainly knows that 9/11 was an act of war. Thus he ought to know that this crime is not for 12 "peers". Indeed if we could find 12 peers of these people they would all rise up and kill the judge and all in the courtroom, ...for starters.
SPECULATION:
Barack Obama intends to use this trial to kick off international AND national torture trials of Bush administration officials to blacken the republican party as these attackers find themselves in trials in which they both can reject the evidence brought on by water boarding, etc, and publicize their use by direct evidence. They will then, facing some kind of dismissal on the major charges be found guilty under some Al Capone like charge, but the damage will have been done and at the very least men like Dick Cheney and others who served this nation to secure the people themselves will find themselves under international indictment.
The NYT will have headlines and sell papers every day
HuffPo will glorify the results
HRW will be orgasmically screeching
Obama will have fended off political disaster
Paranoia on my part? The only enemy Obama means ill to are those who can do him no harm but political harm.
None of this changes the objective reality. These attackers deserved the fate of Yamamoto. But in custody now, and bereft of any valuable information, they should be left to rot in isolation until the day the war ends (whenever that is determined to have happened) and then brought to trial as was Homma
UPDATE:
Think I'm paranoid?
I'm not the only one, so is the AG who tried the blind sheik