Do you believe terrorists should be treated this way?

Question

O.J. Trials for Terrorists
by Ann Coulter
Posted Oct 18, 2006

The Democrats claim they want to treat terrorism as a criminal law problem,
but when we give them an American citizen convicted of aiding terrorists --
as happened this week -- a Democrat judge gives her a slap on the wrist.
Or he was going to give her a wrist slap until someone told him that wrist-slapping
was banned under the Geneva Conventions, so he let the wrist off with a warning.

Last year, a New York jury found Lynne Stewart guilty of helping her former client,
Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with his Egyptian-based group of murderous
terrorists, appropriately known as "the Islamic Group."

The blind sheik needed to instruct his followers to abandon a truce and resume murdering innocents,
but he couldn't get the message through because, by sheer coincidence,
he was in prison for conspiring to murder innocents here in America by plotting the first
World Trade Center bombing. So Stewart and a "translator" met with her former client in
prison and took his messages for transmission to his followers in Egypt.

With the full constitutional protections Democrats want for terrorists in Guantanamo,
Stewart was convicted by a New York jury last year.

This week, Judge John Koeltl -- appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994 --
spurned the prosecution's request for a 30-year sentence and gave Stewart 28 months for
being a terrorist's mule. Now she'll clog up the criminal justice system with endless appeals
for the next several years -- using procedures that liberals also want for Guantanamo detainees.

At Stewart's sentencing, the judge noted that the defendant's actions had not resulted in any deaths.
I'll have to remember that in case I'm ever on trial for attempted murder. "Hey, your honor, did I mention
that the guy lived? Yeah, the darn gun jammed on me. Go figure, huh?"

In rejecting a 30-year sentence in favor of a 28-month sentence, the judge commended Stewart for her
"public service, not only to her clients, but to the nation" for representing members of the Black Panthers
and the Weather Underground. In a sane world, that would have justified a longer sentence, not a shorter one.

If only Democrats could turn the entire war on terrorism over to the courts, they could release terrorists and terrorist
sympathizers with wild abandon -- and Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton would never have to take a position.

When Americans are allowed to vote, a fireman's vote counts as much as George Soros' vote. But if liberals can just
get terrorists into the judicial system, a Clinton-appointed judge can rule on a defense funded by George Soros --
precisely what happened in Stewart's case. Note that even in liberal New York City, average citizens on the jury voted
to convict Stewart, despite her Soros-funded defense.

Democrats run apparently sane candidates for office, like James Webb in Virginia and Bob Casey in Pennsylvania,
who can puff up their chests and pretend they want to pursue terrorists -- while carping about any and all military action
in the terrorists' general direction. Instead, let's turn terrorists over to courts full of Clinton and Carter judges! Democratic
candidates get to look tough, and the terrorists go scot-free.

It would be frightening enough to treat terrorism as a criminal law problem if it were Republicans saying it. But these are
Democrats. Their idea of a major criminal case is Tom DeLay's campaign treasurer accidentally depositing a campaign
contribution into a checking account rather than a savings account.

By contrast, terrorists imprisoned in Guantanamo for trying to kill Americans must be treated as innocent little lambs.
Oh, to be there when Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman is exonerated due to previously unavailable "DNA evidence"!

After President Bush signed a law this week providing for military tribunals for terrorists being held at Guantanamo and prohibiting
their torture, Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin said, "We will look back on this day as a stain on our nation's history.
" (Note to Democrats: It's still too soon to use "stain" as a metaphor for a White House brouhaha.)

Democrats stood outside the White House shouting "Torture is a crime!" and "Bush is the terrorist!" Yep, these are the people
who claim they're going to keep us all safe, America. Everybody good with that?

Gen. George Washington tried Major John Andre, Benedict Arnold's British co-conspirator, by military tribunal and ordered Andre
hanged within 10 days of his capture. Nazi saboteurs, including an American citizen, captured on U.S. soil during World War II
were tried in secret by military commission and promptly executed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Nuremberg trials were
a form of military tribunal.

But Democrats think military tribunals aren't good enough for the terrorists plotting to kill Americans today. Liberals are going to make
the terrorists love us! What better way to start than with criminal trials in front of judges like John Koeltl?

Babs- The terrorist in the question was not alledged but had been tried and convicted.

Answer 1

The problem is the liberals think you can reason with killers and terrorists. Daily in several foreign countries, innocent people are dying from car bombs, suicide bombers and assassinations carried out by these same people that the liberals want to give the same rights as Americans.

What about the people who died on 911? don't they deserve justice? I don't want people to be brutal and mistreat them, but lets give them justice and make them responsible for their actions.

Answer 2

I'm certain he would possibly not be getting probably the most sympathetic healing do you? If I was once a nurse and advised to inject him with morphine ever four hours for the soreness you would relaxation confident I'd be squirting it down the sink and ticking the drug sheet. Then might be thats why I'm no longer a nurse? I do suppose he will have to be handled and saved alive - he desired to die consider. Giving his lifestyles was once the superb reward he would provide so far as he was once involved. We are denying him of what he thinks is his motive in lifestyles. He may be celebration to know-how that the police and protection offerings want.

Answer 3

Well,have you every thought that just maybe thats the good old United Nations for you. On are military I.D. s it says Geneva Conventions Identification Card. Not United States Armed Forces Identification card..

Answer 4

All those "pro-life" Republicans need to understand that what we're talking about here is "alleged" and "presumed" terrorists. They're all so mean-spirited they must feel permanently secure in their own positions. God is in charge. The real God, not theirs, and He'll show no mercy to those who aren't merciful. They want vengeance? They'll get all they deserve and more. In God's eyes, these Middle Easterners are their sisters and brothers, and it's a commandment to love them as they love themselves. Fear-mongering and hate-mongering and war-mongering is not where its at.

Answer 5

Terrorists do not abide by any law. Human life has no value to them including their own. They do not belong in the courts.

Answer 6

i didnt have time to read it so i cant disagree or agree cuz i dont know wat it is. but i do know they should all die painfully