Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:24:03 PM
This past Saturday, my wife and I were in New York City spending a long weekend there celebrating our 10th anniversary. We saw tourist sites such as the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island which commemorate America's historical legacy and future promise. We were moved by seeing Ground Zero where the ugly reality of Islamist terror hit home and by the memorial currently being built so we can honor those who were killed on 9/11 and to continue our fight to eliminate this evil from this world. Not to far from Ground Zero, is New York City's Federal Court House which we also walked by on our way to a subway station.
Today, a jury trial of a perpetrator of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania resulted in this individual ONLY being convicted of conspiring to damage U.S. Govt. property and being acquitted of the more serious charge of terrorism because a federal judge refused to allow evidence from a witness who had been coerced which would have resulted in a successful conviction. Nine years after 9/11, it is amazing that the Obama Administration and other leftist fools, domestic and international, think we can apply traditional western standards of law and justice and evidentiary procedure to Islamist terrorists who are contemptuous of our legal system. These terrorists believe they will enter the perverted Islamic version of heaven if they kill Americans or others not adhering to their religious worldview. Our court rules, whether they be civilian or military in provenance, are meaningless to those genuflecting before Sharia and seeking to impose it globally. The President and his partner in terrorist appeasement, Attorney General Eric Holder, have again been exposed as absolute imbeciles as today's laughable verdict demonstrates. How many tax dollars were wasted providing this perpetrator with legal counsel and the other multiple financial costs of conducting a federal trial in expensive New York City?
We must learn that we should feel no regret about how we get information from terrorists that can prevent assaults against U.S. citizens and interests. If we capture terrorists we should pump as much actionable intelligence from them, by all means necessary, then exterminate them. Today's verdict shows how woefully inept our legal system is in addressing Islamist terrorism let alone deterring and defeating it. They must be laughing at us in Waziristan, Yemen, Somalia, and other sanctuaries of Islamist terror as our legal "solons" think they can treat battle hardened ideologues in the same way our legal system treats tax evaders or perpetrators of financial fraud.