Reply #15: The way things are going . . .

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It is indeed distressing to me to see so many people with such profound doubts about our system of government. I rather expect that from the yammerers amongst the Tea Baggers and their ilk. And the pants-wetters we will apparently have with us always. But far too many folks who should know better and who have seen successful prosecutions of the likes of Timothy McVeigh and Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman have succumbed to the alarmists or the neatniks or something else to think that we can no longer conduct a criminal trial.

It's not too dangerous to try criminals, even really bad ones. It takes only the political will to trust the system as it is set up, and leaders willing to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution with the same moxie they show in sending troops hither and yon to enforce the edicts of the empire.