They Made Us a Nation of Bedwetters

[kpete]

They Made Us a Nation of Bedwetters
by BooMan
Sat May 5th, 2012 at 12:18:49 AM EST

I don't know anyone who is avidly anticipating or who plans to avidly follow the sham-trial of the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Comparing it to the O.J. Simpson trial is a sad joke. The sad truth is that the man most responsible for the carnage of 9/11 would probably walk free if given a fair trial because Dick Cheney and George W. Bush decided to torture him and tainted the evidence against him. Since we are understandably unwilling to just let him go, he will be given a fake trial instead and then he will be condemned to death. Very few people will mourn his passing, but his life is not what we should be mourning. We should be mourning the legitimacy of our system of justice.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/5/01849/07832
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/global-view-groundhogs-day-at-gitmo.html

[randome]

1. Yeah, well, despite the injustices committed in the name of 'freedom'...

...it wouldn't exactly hurt to remember the thousands who died on 9/11.

I'm not disputing you about how this sham 'trial' is being conducted and I do not condone torture under any circumstances but...it's kind of the same reaction I have about the death penalty. In general, I'm against it but I'm not going to protest too strongly when a true monster is put to death.

[Snotcicles]

3. Well it was said "A wise man is not bound by his principles". nt

[gratuitous]

2. We clearly don't trust our own laws anymore

And it's oh-so-fashionable now to just shit-can the Constitution based on some newly-minted principle of necessity. I didn't much care for it when the hideously-misnamed USA PATRIOT Act was passed in 2001 (curiously quickly after the September 11 attacks; almost as if this was legislation just waiting for the right moment to be enacted), and I really detest it nearly 11 years later.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The President swears an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. The reason for that is because without the Constitution, there is no United States of America with its justly-revered separation of powers and Bill of Rights. There would be no greater testimony to the world and to our own people than to follow the Constitution even in our darkest hour. But what we've demonstrated time and again in the last decade is that we will jettison our own laws in the name of efficiency, or because we're really scared, or (most likely) because it serves some other power's shadowy ends.

This trial will be a sham and a shame. And a lot of people who should know better will go along with it for no better reason than the party affiliation of the man currently occupying the Oval Office.