Nidal Hasan, jihadist mass murderer, had pre-traumatic stress disorder, I am to believe. Now I think I have it too, from the announcement by AG Holder that he will bring the 9/11 masterminds to New York for trial, on Con-air.
From the British Daily Express, a brilliant column that shows where the United States will end up as we travel along the road to serfdom:
The basic ethics of our civilisation have been inverted by a political
elite that prefers trendy Marxism to traditional morality. In this
twisted world, the Government has become a monstrous, cowardly bully.
Against ordinary citizens it wields its power in an ever more arbitrary
and authoritarian manner, demanding taxes, imposing fines, restricting
freedoms, maintaining surveillance. Yet in the face of real criminal
menace, it cowers pathetically, whimpering about the “human rights” of
offenders and refusing to lock up thugs.
Now witness the arrogance of the Attorney General. Here is an excerpt of his interview on NPR's NewsHour. You can also listen to the mp3:
JIM LEHRER: Who did you consult while making this decision?
ERIC HOLDER: I talked to the prosecutors in the Justice Department,
prosecutors from the Department of Defense, people on the staff here at
the Justice Department, people at Defense, a whole variety of people,
who shared ideas, thoughts, gave cautionary ideas as well, and, using
all of that, came up with the decision that we announced just earlier
today.
JIM LEHRER: Did you run it by President Obama?
ERIC HOLDER: Just informed him of the decision.
He's a person who believes that a president's supposed to have hands
off with his Justice Department. He's a good lawyer. And there are
times when I would like to involve him maybe a little more, but his
view is that, in those things that are in the province of the attorney
general, all he needs to be is informed.
JIM LEHRER: So, you just told him what your decision was; you didn't say, "What do you think about it, Mr. President?"
ERIC HOLDER: Nope. Told him last night -- or had relayed to him what
I was going to do last night while he was on Air Force One on his way
to Asia.
JIM LEHRER: Did you talk to anybody outside the government?
ERIC HOLDER: I talked to my wife...
JIM LEHRER: Yes? OK.
ERIC HOLDER: ... about what she thought. And I actually talked to my
brother, who's a retired Port Authority police officer who served...
JIM LEHRER: Oh, is that right? Yes.
ERIC HOLDER: ... in New York, New Jersey, and who lost friends and
colleagues on 9/11 in the towers, and talked to them about what -- was
it appropriate to bring it in New York, the symbolic significance of
it, the possibility of getting a good and fair detached jury.
So, those are at least two people I spoke to outside the normal realm.
John Ashcroft covered some tits on a statue with cloth, and everybody freaked out, while Ed Meese delivered an anti-pornography report in front of a topless statue. Janet Reno, fearing children were in danger, killed them all instead of saving them by burning the entire place to the ground killing everyone. And she also presided over giving a little boy, who's mother drowned in the ocean to get him here, back to the communist tyranny of Cuba. But we musn't forget John Mitchell, Nixon's notorious Attorney General, probably the most ass-out crazy of them all. My point is most of these people would be deemed nutcases to the average American. Maybe being outrageous is part of the job. But if one thing goes wrong with this KSM trial, and anybody gets hurt, or they somehow manage to throw the trial, Obama and the Democrats will have to own it. And they don't seem to have much input into the decision making. I've never seen such glibness. This will end in tears, to quote Gerald Warner.