As you may have heard, the Al Qaeda-related trials that Congress wouldn’t allow to go through the normal judicial system have started up in Guantanamo. Doug Elliot, an Irvine resident with an attorney past and Occupier tendencies, has started up a new blog and is giving us a review on how it’s going. Summary: it’s not going well. Here’s a taste and a link to his full piece, with internal links excluded here: – Greg <>
Welcome to Guantanamo -- enjoy the show trial!
As related by Terry McDermott in The Daily Beast:
What had been planned as the straightforward arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four codefendants on charges of conspiring to commit the Sept. 11 attacks disintegrated into dark comedy.
Judge James Pohl scolded attorneys for refusing to follow his carefully articulated script for the proceeding; lawyers argued they were not qualified to defend their clients; translators interrupted lawyers to insist they be quiet; defendants refused to answer any questions from the judge or even acknowledge they’d been asked; one interrupted the proceedings first to pray and again to shout out his fears of being attacked by members of the prosecution team; another who started the day shackled to his chair ended it by stripping to the waist to display scars he claims were inflicted by his Guantánamo guards.
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Just kill the sons-of-bitches already!
Not a due process absolutist, I see….
Wait .. is this Skally passing judgment on Kelly Thomas’ killers? Or on some Muslims who ended up rightly or wrongly in Gitmo?
*The topper was; that one of the prosecuting attorney’s showed up in a Hijab….so that the felonius killers wouldn’t have a spirtual scism….and insult their religiousity. She also encouraged her entire defense team to do the same. What ever happened to Native American Justice? You know…they stake them out on an ant hill in the middle of Death Valley and wait to see if they confess? That probably wouldn’t offend Alah or any other higher power. 911 – we vaguely remember about 3000 folks dying in NYC at the Twin Towerss, the Pentagon and on Flt. 93.
“Stake them out on an ant hill”? What’s up — are you now moonlighting as recruiters for Al Qaeda?
*The above was reported on the Dennis Prager show yesterday. We did make a error…The prosecution team at Gitmo were the ones being cajoled to wear those Hijabs ….so as not to up the accused. She encouraged her entire prosecution team
to not cause the accused to have to sin by looking upon women without a Hijab.
Is there not a “ten story” building in Gitmo?
*Dr, Diamond…..a lot of great people have been staked out on an ant hill including the Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, Paladin even Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. They all got away…cause they had right on their side. Of course, a lot of bad guys didn’t…but that was purely the Native American way and intent.
*That bone is still behind me on the carpet….why do you ask? Fido knows best…Fido knows best!