How Just-Us Will Screw Up The Lives Of 12 People
My dad once said, “Everything you do affects someone else.”
With that, by President Obama directing the Just-Us Department to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in an American court of law instead of a military tribunal, should twelve people find him guilty, it may be very hard for them to buy life insurance policies.
Wanted: 12 New Yorkers willing to put their lives on hold – and maybe on the line – to try the mastermind behind the biggest crime in U.S. history.
The jury ultimately chosen to hear the case against confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will face months of heart-wrenching testimony amid air-tight security.
Unlike the O.J. jury where there was a not-guilty verdict, there may be no book deal takers, the lawyers (and their daughters) won’t become household names, and the media will be speculating how one lives with fatwas hanging over their heads.
Something for the administration to ponder as their decision will directly and adversely affect the lives of “ordinary people”.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I don’t have that much faith in our court system. We will screw this up way before we get a conviction.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I seriously don’t have faith in the media, who will turn this into a three ring circus. As the NY prosecutors struggle to keep in evidence, and the high paid (can you say tax dollars out the window) defense attorneys try to take it out, and the judges drag this out forever.
The media will be JUST like they were in the OJ trial, hanging on every damning word, and making a living off of a war crime that should never be tried in our criminal “just us” system. I love that Bob, it is perfectly apt!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:25 am
This is Obama’s way to release his friends. No way will this trial end good for all of us that love America.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Richard Pryor was the first to use the “Just Us” label, at least that’s what I remember.
He was referring to the Criminal Justice System and the fact that when he went to jail, all he saw in there were other black men.
So, of course, being a comedian, he turned it into a joke of sorts.
However, I always felt that Pryor had a left leaning agenda going on.
At the same time that he saw only, “just us” in the prison system, there were entire cellblocks full of white power skinheads, neo-nazis and other white criminals as well.
Bob is certaily entitled to use the phrase for our cause now, though, I should think, because of the way the left has intruded into the very definition of words and phrases to distort, cause confusion and just plain outright tell lies.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey (2007 to 2009) is quoted in a WSJ interview published OCTOBER 19, 2009. He effectively warns that the Obama/Holder team of incompetents (neither of which have any experience in the legal aspects of the criminal justice system) are setting dangerous precedent in not seeking the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed even though he did ask for the execution penalty during the 1995 trial in federal district court in Manhattan for his co-conspirators. Or maybe that is the Obama plan. Simply gut the government, the military, the economy, the dollar and the country along with it.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
That’s an excellent point. Will the government guarantee the safety of the jurors? Even if the government does, who’s going to trust the government to do what they say when the trial is actually over?