I Feel Less Safe Today
An attack on the US State, or just another crime?
I feel less safe today. A terrorist tried to blow up a U.S. plane filled with hundreds of innocent people in the name of al Qaeda. But it gets worse. This terrorist is now being represented by an attorney and has been read his rights. He sits in a U.S. prison awaiting his criminal hearing. Criminal. Oh, excuse me, I should have referred to him as an “alleged” criminal or “suspect,” to quote President Obama.
It gets still worse. Why is this terrorist not sitting in a military detention center, like Guantanamo Bay, being questioned by the Central Intelligence Agency to obtain critical information about what and who he knows, if anything? Because, as the Left explained in the press today, that would be silly: why send him down to Guantanamo now, if he is just going to be sent right back — like all the others — to be tried in U.S. court as a criminal? What’s the difference, they ask, between a suspect being represented in the U.S. court system, and a terrorist being interrogated for intelligence by the CIA?
Exactly. Yep. I feel less safe today.
Paul Handover
