{"id":6441,"date":"2009-11-19T07:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2009-11-19T07:34:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:34:46","slug":"dumbest-tack-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6441","title":{"rendered":"Dumbest Tack Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I commented on this yesterday; the administraiton is listening to the bipartisan revulsion at the decision to hold show-trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and company in Manhattan, and saying &#8220;na na na scaredypants&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s catching on: Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/editorials\/story\/1751788.html\">Patrick Leahy<\/a>, the real\u00a0leader of the\u00a0DNC\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/columnists\/markos-moulitas\/68189-conservative-cowards\">Markos Moulitsas <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/11\/the_tinny_bravado_of_eric_hold.asp\">Attorney General Holder <\/a>are all playing along.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it has nothing to do with fear &#8211; or at least not fear of the trial.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s some utterly justifiable trepidation about the precedent this will set.<\/p>\n<p>Sister <a href=\"http:\/\/sistertoldjah.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/18\/democrat-theme-of-the-week-lets-not-cower-over-ksm-civilian-trial\/\">Toldjah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmmm. Let\u2019s see. You\u2019ve got one side desiring to protect sensitive intelligence information from the eyes of Islamofascist thugs who want to kill Americans abroad \u2013 including our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2013 and both military officers and civilians here at home, a side hungry for justice to be carried out against admitted terrorist brutes like KSM, and you\u2019ve got some on another side that is operating under the shameless <strong>pretense<\/strong> of \u201cwanting justice\u201d for 9-11 victims but who in realilty apparently have no problem with the possibility that sensitive national security information will be revealed in the process \u2013 and in fact wishes for such information to be revealed in order to put the evil Bush admin on trial, a side where not many are particularly interested in justice for the 9-11 victims but are apparently more interested in being pro-\u201djustice\u201d against their <em>political opposition<\/em> \u2013 a position that presents a clear danger to both Americans and their interests both at home and stateside. This isn\u2019t about \u201cjustice\u201d for the left \u2013 it\u2019s about \u201crevenge.\u201d Interesting, when you think about it, because they\u2019ve been telling us for years that the courtroom is not supposed to be about \u201crevenge\u201d but about \u201cfairness and justice under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Um, just who are the <em>\u201ccowards\u201d<\/em> again?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Careful, there.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be called &#8220;Hateful&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I commented on this yesterday; the administraiton is listening to the bipartisan revulsion at the decision to hold show-trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and company in Manhattan, and saying &#8220;na na na scaredypants&#8221;. It&#8217;s catching on: Senator Patrick Leahy, the real\u00a0leader of the\u00a0DNC\u00a0Markos Moulitsas and Attorney General Holder are all playing along. Of course, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}