Bring Out You're Dead!

Okay, so the administration is commencing (finally) the prosecution of the detainees currently being held to account for the 9/11 attacks.

My own opinion on the prosecution itself is simple: about time. Of slightly more interest in the public forum (at least to the current herd of Elephants) is the decision of Justice to pursue the trial in old New York itself, practically in the shadow of the WTC itself. According to Faux News, this is the next sign of the impending apocalypse...or at least an invitation to "the bad guys" to stage another attack...or for the defendants themselves to do something disruptive (oh noezies!) ...or some other vague thing that we all need to A: be afraid of and B: blame on Obama. On of the chief complaints being raised from this quarter is actually the fear that somehow these men will be acquitted on a technicality; while I am generally loathe to agree with Mike Malloy's rhetoric, I freely admit that the lack of confidence in our system of Justice registered by the wing-nuts is, at the least, annoying. Of course there are also those who feel that we simply should not be extending our legal system and it's rights to these men; the hypocrisy of such people is galling. Are we to take it that we, as Americans, are more entitled simply by virtue being Americans? Asinine, at best.

Other people however have pointed out that while it is certainly possible these men may be released onto the streets of New York, their ultimate fate is unlikely to be much different than with a guilty verdict and we, as a nation, have the obligation to live up to our highest principles. Let me take this moment to recall the storage capacity of the Hudson.

Almost as bad is the rampant doom saying regarding the decision to move the prisoners of Gitmo to Illinois. The facts are rather enlightening and the voices from the locals are overwhelmingly positive; the people in the local in question want this, even as Republicans do their level best to monger fear and shout down the plan.

Once again...I am forced to recall my study of The Ethics which in turn forces me to say again, "If wish to be a just people, we must practice justice."