9/11 families, supporters, protest NYC trials

[unhappycamper]

Gabe Preda, center, shouts during a protest outside the federal courthouse in New York on Dec. 5. Several hundred people rallied in the rain near Manhattan's federal courthouse complex to protest the plan to put major terrorism suspects on trial in New York City.


9/11 families, supporters, protest NYC trials
By Verena Dobnik - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Dec 5, 2009 16:44:08 EST

NEW YORK — Several hundred people rallied in the rain near Manhattan’s federal courthouse complex Saturday to protest the plan to put major terrorism suspects on trial in New York City.

Demonstrators at the Saturday event included the actor Brian Dennehy and a number of people who lost friends and relatives in the 9/11 attacks.

Anger at the Obama administration ran hot in the crowd. One person held up a sign calling Attorney General Eric Holder “disgraceful and despicable.” Another sign said “Obama/Holder ... Jihad from within.”

Opponents of the plan say that a New York trial could again make the city a terrorism target, and that the five suspects should instead face a military tribunal.

Addressing the crowd, Dennehy passed along a message from the father of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who is opposed to a public trial for reputed terror mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/12/ap_new_york_protest_trials_120509/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Any bets these folks would sing a different tune if it were them or a loved one

being held on terrorism charges? As sure as the sun rises in the East, right-wingers simply hate American values and traditions being applied to anyone but themselves.

[jtylerpittman]

2. if the goverment has a case they should bring it to a court room

military tribunals are rediculous ruber stamp convictions