Obama is Inviting Terrorist Attacks

I honestly could not have imagined our current presidential administration doing more to weaken this country until I heard what they pulled on Friday the 13th. While the President was in China, it was announced that the terrorists who mastermind the 9/11 attacks, who still remain in American custody, will be tried under our civil court system, in a court of law, in New York City. The US Attorney General, Eric Holder, under the direction of the Obama Administration, made the announcement on a Friday, a typically slow news day (not in terms of news doesn't happen, but less people pay attention to the news on Friday), while our coward President and their controlled media outlets pushed his latest nuclear weapon negotiations with Iran and his meetings with various leaders of China.

Now, I agree that the US has the most progressive and in many ways envied legal system in the world. And what a triumph it would be to prove that our legal system is capable of finding justice for the most horrific terrorist attacks on US soil! It would show the world how perfect and infallible our legal system is and that the US still has strength! And since our justice system has been set up as a means of deterring criminal behavior, surely a victory in the courts would deter future terrorist attacks, right?! Wrong! Horribly wrong! Stupidly wrong! I can't think of many more idiotic acts this current administration can pull than this one!

For starters, our justice system was indeed set up as a means of deterrence. It was never intended to be a form of punishment, despite what over-emotional judges and citizens might believe. The justice system has been about taking behavior we have deemed in our society as being inappropriate, and attaching a consequence to that behavior in the hope that an individual will choose not to commit a particular crime, and the means of deterrence varies from prison time, to probation, to death depending on the severity of the offence and the state the case is tried in. In cases where the justice system as a deterrent does not work, like with repeat offenders for example, the justice system branches out to become a means of safety and protection for the general public by determining an individual is not fit to live in society, and for the good of the people, must be confined for the remainder of his life. The justice system was designed by our founding fathers, the majority of which were practicing Christians and believed punishment belonged to God. Trying terrorists not only fails to deter others from committing similar terrorist crimes, in reality it will do the exact opposite. Our court system is backed up, it will take years to try these individuals, and once the trial does commence it can take anywhere from weeks to months to years to convict, giving the terrorists who now have the same rights as US citizens a platform to preach their twisted form of Islam, expose guarded interrogation secrets and techniques, and elevate themselves to the rest of radical Islam as heroes. This will only embolden other terrorist sects to move forward with their terrorist plans. Not to mention the fact that the accused will spend their time in facilities housing convicts from this country, many of which have a grudge against the government, and can be easily recruited. This bastardized form of Islam is far different from any other form of religion preached not only in the prison system, but in the world. Most in the prison system who convert to Christianity or traditional Islam accept the philosophy of altering their behavior to that designated by God or Allah. Even the word "Islam" means "submission". Radical Islam however does not require this; instead it uses the idea of faith as a means of recruiting individuals to support a cause, not a way of life. As a result, many of those seduced by radical Islam in the prison system are individuals Christianity and traditional Islam would not accept.

Secondly, terrorist acts are acts of war, they are not civil crimes. The 9/11 masterminds are not American citizens and therefore have no right to access to our criminal justice system, or the rights of protection, silence, or representation granted under it. Those rights are granted to citizens of the US. These individuals are criminals of war, and therefore are subject to the war crimes/military system we have set up to handle such captured offenders. That's why a separate system was created! By giving terrorists access to our civil laws and rights, we are allowing them to remain silent, to receive representation, and protection against interrogation techniques such as water boarding to make them talk. How can a judge not throw out any evidence gained by using such techniques now? Our civil justice system protects against such interrogation techniques, and any evidence gained by them is inadmissible! Not to mention that now, these terrorists and future terrorists will have the ability to use any technicality they can to declare a mistrial! I think the way we have admitted to treating terrorists in Guantanamo Bay is grounds enough for that to occur!

Now, I don't believe these terrorists will end up going free, not even this administration is that stupid, but there is a possibility they will be found not guilty and then arrested again. What's the harm in that though? Either way, they aren't going anywhere, right? True, they won't be released to kill again, but this trial is not just going to be all over the US news stations, this is going to be watched world-wide, and a not guilty ruling will completely tarnish our justice system. On top of that, how many 9/11 victim's families are going to be expected to testify against these terrorist masterminds, having to once again relive the horror of the events of that day? And all for what? So we can execute these extremists, which is the same outcome as will happen under the military justice system, but without the risks to national security or further emotional heartache.

This move by our current administration is opening the door and welcoming in all groups who wish to do us harm. Come, murder our people, and if we catch you we'll give you a place to stay, won't force you to tell us about any other plans for future attacks, won't force you to give up any other terrorist cells, and allow you to freely spread your dangerous propaganda to the world through various media outlets and your court appointed attorney. Oh, and if you're convicted, while you're awaiting your execution date which you aren't afraid of anyway since you're going to get 72 virgins in heaven, why don't you convert some of your fellow inmates to radical Islam so that when the weapons smuggler, bank robber, and drug trafficker with all their various connections get out, they can start making plans to attack us. And when you are executed, those who believe as you do will speak of your name in reverence, as a martyr for the cause.