Poll: 55% of New Yorkers Oppose NY Trials for Terrorists
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Terrorist Trial.
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Why do people feel this way? Because trying war criminal terrorists in regular courts is plain and simple stupid:
Just 35% of New York State voters agree with Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and five other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City rather than before a military tribunal.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 55% are opposed to that decision, which is part of the Obama administration’s effort to close the terrorist prison camp at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
The only people who were ever for closing Gitmo are the leftists who think that George Bush and Dick Cheney are war criminals – in other words, only idiots and/or those seeking to score political points. Holding the terrorists in Gitmo is an act of mercy on our part – given the nature of this war and the manner in which our enemies fight, we are fully justified in shooting captured terrorists out of hand. They have no rights – irregular forces which are not clearly identifiable as part of a national military force are outside the bounds of civilized warfare. We go the extra mile – because we’re good and decent people – and the left chooses to accuse us of being criminals for so doing.
Idiocy. Sheer idiocy.
And now this sort of thinking is in charge of our Justice Department. Its going to be a rough few years for us until we can get rid of Obama and his clowns.
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18 Responses to “Poll: 55% of New Yorkers Oppose NY Trials for Terrorists”
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Mark
this will prove to be OJ-2 but with international and dangerous ramifications.
zer0 is really becoming more dangerous by the day to American citizens.
I never thought in my lifetime I would witness the destruction of the republic before my very own eyes.
Thanks donkRATS
I’m surprised that the number is ONLY 55%.
I have to admit too that I am a little taken back by how misguided and destructive the Democrats have become under Pelosi and Obama. Both of them are just beyond incompetent. Unemployment is skyrocketing, mortgage defaults are accelerating, the value of the dollar is plummeting, our enemies are emboldening and their main agenda is to add another trillion of debt, cripple the private sector and ridicule their critics. Can we make it to the fall of 2010?
OT but O’Reilly’s interview with Palin has been very good, with the third and final segment on Monday. She’s the real deal and I look forward to her continued bona fide, conservative, influence within the GOP. I also really like Liz Cheney, everytime she discuss’s an issue, she hits the nail on the head and articulates her position extremely well. We really need these two to be more vocal and have more influence and exposure. And speaking of exposure, where’s Romney?
cluster
I really liked Fred Thompson, he just didnt have the fire in his belly for the job.
I wish he was more outspoken also…it seems the GOP just faded away after the McLame fiasco.
Sarah is the real deal and liz a chip off the old block….I absolutely love cheney
ESPECIALLY after he shot a LAWYER…LOL
Fred got in too late and I agree, he didn’t seem to have the passion. I heard Jindal the other night discuss employment in his state, have you seen what Louisiana is doing? He’s doing a great job in that state in terms of recruiting business, in fact unemployment in LA is 7% vs 10.2% overall for the US, AND this is post Katrina, which wiped out his largest city. He’s doing a great job.
this just in…
…100% of new yorkers support trying, convicting, & hanging the terrorist scum at ground zero.
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as a former New Yorker im 100% for that, then bury them there with a dead pig for time memorial.
WOW
watch this…….scary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2m-X7OIuY
I wonder what these guys think about the trial?
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/MTV-Cuts-Obama-Fried-Chicken-From-Rap-Video-70618747.html
neo,
Powerful video. I don’t always agree with the judge, but I have a great deal of admiration and respect for him, especially on Constitutional matters. I’d be interested in hearing reactions from our resident Libs on what he says in this video.
Robert Gates is not a Leftist.
The problem with this is that of the four crimes committed on 9/11, only one was an actual war crime. Civilians hijacking a civilian aircraft, flying it into civilian buildings, and killing the civilians inside is quite clearly a civilian crime. And even if the specific aspects of 9/11 that they are being charged for were formally war crimes, the assertion that irregular forces have no rights is in contravention of the Geneva Convention, which quite clearly spells out what to do with spies and saboteurs (who are generally not in uniform).
Unless of course they plead guilty again, which they’ve already done once.
That’s a good question. He may just be lying low until things have settled down politically; the potential for gaffes right now is rather high (as it is with any protest), and I suspect that he’s judged that the risk is currently higher than any potential benefits to his 2012 campaign, especially this early on.
SA
ROTFLMAO……..
so now the financial chicken is coming home to roose and the little commie pinkos dont like the cost socialism……LIVE WITH IT you wanted it now ya got it..LOL X10,000
UC Berkeley students protest student fee hike
The occupiers were demanding the university rehire laid-off custodial workers and give amnesty to anyone arrested in the protest.
About 30 to 50 protesters staged a takeover of Campbell Hall at UCLA on Thursday, as regents met across campus to approve the fee hike. More than 50 students were arrested during protests at UC Davis.
Regents say they had to raise fees because the cash-strapped state government can’t meet the university’s funding needs.
http://www.breitbart.tv/raw-footage-32-inflation-in-ucla-tuition-causes-riots/
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and took over a building Thursday on the UCLA campus, where University of California regents were scheduled to vote on a 32 percent student fee increase.
SA@ Unless of course they plead guilty again, which they’ve already done once.
Im sure I heard KSM was going to defend himself, that does not line up with a guilty charge.
Civilians hijacking a civilian aircraft, flying it into civilian buildings, and killing the civilians inside is quite clearly a civilian crime.
The scum going to trial did not fly the planes, are not civilians, and were not on American soil.
Sergei,
Your statement is “head in the sand” at its worst.
This isn’t a political game; this isn’t a college discussion group – this is war with people who would kill every last one of us if they could.
Yes, they are. Terrorists and military personnel are not the same thing; if they were, we wouldn’t have laws against it.
That said, Holder has now said, “The 9/11 attacks were both an act of war and a violation of our federal criminal law, and they could have been prosecuted in either federal courts or military commissions,” so I do stand corrected. According to the same article, “those who attacked a civilian target on U.S. soil were being sent to a civilian federal court and those who attacked or plotted against military targets abroad were going before tribunals.”
No ****. It’s nice to see you finally acknowledging the attacks’ severity after having dodged the issue for so long. Now why don’t you support your Commander in Chief the way you keep on saying you’re going to and stop doing everything you can to undermine the legitimacy of what are, no matter what the venue, the single most important trials in the War on Terror to date?
Why did those people commandeer those aircraft and fly them into buildings? For profit?
No, it was a plan that was part of a decades-long war against Western culture.
Calling it a “crime” is the silliest and most simplistic way to look at it.
If some individuals had taken one aircraft for a profit, or even just to make a point, it might have been considered criminal. But they represented a highly organized and well-funded foreign-based group with a clearly stated agenda of destroying as much of AMERICA as they could, they had a decades-long pattern of doing so, and although they hide behind the claim of religion what they call their religion has much more to do with politics than with religion. (The only way to call their belief a “relgion” is to fall back on the radical dependence on redefinition of terms, and to decide that it can be a “religion” if its goal is world domination and elimination of all who do not submit, rather than individual and personal salvation and redemption.)
I’ve been gone a few days—has anyone addressed the fact that Holder’s ruling (as if anyone is falling for the conceit that this IS Holder’s ruling..) tells terrorists that if they come here and slaughter civilians they will get better treatment, and more rights and privileges, than if they attack military targets abroad?
I am appalled at the cluelessness of anyone who can fail to see that this cockamamie and irresponsible decision merely tells attackers to target civilians here in our own country.
And what about the hundred or so other terrorists waiting military trials? Each and every one of them now can and probably will file for the right to get the same concessions just handed to KSM.