Obama Throws Holder Under the Bus

[Ralphy]

A friend once told me. He believed the legal system was corrupt. Because they wanted criminals released. Based on the idea that they will only perpetrate another crime and they can keep capitalizing with them on the families money or the taxpayers. I agree.

So maybe Obama the Clintons, Biden, Gore or maybe John Edwards could do something about it? Oh my bad, they are all.......... law grads. Whats wrong with that picture, hmmmm.... Seems the whole Democratic Party has been taken over by lawyers?

[tcrist]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

You know I'm wondering if it would be CHEAPER to put them in Super Max for life than to fund the numerous and lenghty appeals required by law in a death sentence case!

Ernie,

You are probably correct. How about we change the laws to one appeal and one only. If they lose then the next day they are executed.

[bomelia]

Well, I have no dog in this fight other than I am an American. Gonna be fun to watch this play out. The only acceptable punishment is the death penalty. Anything less and Obama loses politically. And loses BIG. Why Bush did not proceed with the tribunals when he was in office, I will never understand.

[purespeed]

If I remember correctly, one of Obama campaign promises included bringing terrorist into the US court system and trying them...that wasn't Holder's original idea.

Speaking of Holder and trying terrorist, his law firm has experience defending the terrorists in Gitmo already. Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo.

Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates, David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. (One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.)

[Silverback51]

Originally Posted by bomelia

Well, I have no dog in this fight other than I am an American. Gonna be fun to watch this play out. The only acceptable punishment is the death penalty. Anything less and Obama loses politically. And loses BIG. Why Bush did not proceed with the tribunals when he was in office, I will never understand.

I'm betting I die of old age before this is over.

[map]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

You know I'm wondering if it would be CHEAPER to put them in Super Max for life than to fund the numerous and lenghty appeals required by law in a death sentence case!

No it would be cheaper to give each one a 7.62 in the ****IN HEAD at GITMO then use them for chum!

[Excaliber]

I'm thinking we should follow China's lead on the 7.62, bill the families for the bullet!

[Silverback51]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

I'm thinking we should follow China's lead on the 7.62, bill the families for the bullet!

Do we really want to become like China without due process of the law?

[Excaliber]

We absolutely do not want to become like China or many other Nations without due process John! My comment was tongue in cheek, like I HOPE many of the comments that are posted here are, in reality. When it comes right down to the nitty gritty, the real deal, we must follow not only our laws but also be driven by a decent set of ethics as well.

In other words, as we hear here so often, a fair trial followed by a quick hanging.