Politics over Justice

The Attorney General, Eric Holder, is on the defensive this week as he tries to justify his decision to have the masterminds behind the 9/11 attacks held on trial in a New York City courtroom. His choice of civil court trials for these men who proudly take credit for the deaths of thousands of innocent victims in an attempt to bring down the U.S. government, is meant to send a message to the world. Unfortunately the message will be a revelation of how special interest lawyers and politics can twist the U.S. justice system to rule in their own favor, fair justice or not.

Take for instance the recent comments of President Obama, while traveling through Asia. He stated "I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him." So much for a fair trial and an untainted jury pool!

Holder assures us that security will be high and is not afraid of a retaliation in New York for his choice of venue, pointing out the civilian trials of the masterminds behind the 1993 WTC bombings. Perhaps he doesn't realize that the buildings that were bombed in '93 were brought down in 2001 by the same group of Muslim extremists.

The 'anti-everything military' attitude by the leftist Obama set is our new justices department mantra. They would much rather continue to expose top secret information and broadcast it for their fellow Ayers types than see justice prevail. On one hand they complain that these terrorist were denied swift justice, and on the other hand they plan a long drawn out public trial. The fact that these men were still allowed to live while the military built an iron clad case against them should be an indicator that a military tribunal would NOT have been the public railroading farce that Holder and Obama seem to be concocting for their own agenda.

This attempt to appease the left of the world will become yet another public relations debacle of the Obama administration. The wounds of 9/11 survivors will be opened and salted by the same people who put up the Styrofoam pillars and held the Obama fan fest in Berlin last year. Military tribunals are held so that civilian jurists are not put in a position of having to influence the direction of our world enemies. The lack of judicial depth and a broader world view of our President and Attorney General and their out-of-control egos will trample safety and security for the sake of image. Obama is once again passing the buck. He would rather have the blood of the terrorists stain the hands of a jury than that of the Commander-in-chief.