Palin Takes Anti-Rule-of-Law Stand on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial

Sarah Palin opens her Facebook post with: “Horrible decision, absolutely horrible. It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal trial in New York. This is an atrocious decision.”

Sarah seems bewildered at why the President of the United States would insist that the United States follow the constitution by putting a terrorist on trial for the murder of thousands of Americans.

She continues: “It is crucially important that Americans be made aware that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may walk away from this trial without receiving just punishment because of a “hung jury” or from any variety of court room technicalities.”

It would seem Sarah Palin has no confidence in the best legal system in the world, nor in the city with the best lawyers in the world. Her fear that the trial might some how result in the release of this mass murderer seems to over-ride her patriotism by breaking the Republican rule that sitting Presidents shouldn’t be criticized during a time of war.

It is still hard to imagine that the government of the United States of America, under George Bush, denied these murderous villains their right to a speedy trial: "After eight years of delay, those allegedly responsible for that attacks of September the 11th will finally face justice," Attorney General Eric Holder said. "They will be brought to New York -- to New York -- to answer for their alleged crimes in a courthouse just blocks away from where the twin towers once stood."

Eight years in prison without a trial! Where is Sarah Palin’s outrage that our constitution was ignored in this case? Where is Sarah Palin’s support for the Rule of Law? If she is so scared that she would be unwilling to take constitutionally appropriate action in this case if SHE were president, she is unfit for that office.

In America, it is the Rule of Law, not the Rule of Fear, the ought guide the actions of a President.

Sarah continues with: “If we are stuck with this terrible Obama Administration decision, I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted. Hang ‘em high.” Perhaps she'd simply prefer a good ol' fasioned lynching instead of a trial?

What Sarah fails to understand is that at the end of the day, it really isn’t an Obama Administration decision. In America, people have a right to a speedy trial. In America, true patriots don’t let fear trample the constitution. In America, we trust our legal system to serve justice. You betcha we do!

Not the stuff Presidents are made of.





References:

Obama Administration's Atrocious Decision
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=100000427154637#/note.php?note_id=173486643434&id=24718773587&ref=nf

Critics Weigh Cost of Trying Alleged 9/11 Plotters in New York
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/13/critics-blast-decision-send-alleged-plotters-new-york-trial/