In the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law, government prosecutors asked the judge to ban “inflammatory subjects” such as Guantanamo, secret prisons, drones and the NSA.
Inflammatory Topics
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Also, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will not be allowed to testify. Play that again for me? We’ve got a trial concerning 9/11, and we’ve got the guy who masterminded 9/11 … who might actually know something about the accused’s alleged participation in the post 9/11 festivities … Too bad we murdered UBL, he certainly could have filled in some of the missing information.
Tell me again why we even bother with a trial? If it were possible for us to ruin our reputation even further, then a public sham trial would certainly do it.
Could not agree more.
Perhaps the inflammatory topic of brothers-in-law – indeed, the whole vexed topic of in-laws and other relatives in general – should also be banned ? Keep out sex, drugs, and alcohol as well, and the objective of making sure the trial will not be covered should be within reach….
Henri
The goal is to create more monsters. Dorme ben..,,err хорошо спать.
Of course – normal modus operandi for our government – just like they conveniently forget the many invasions and occupations the US has done over the years for false pretexts and ulterior motives when they declared Russia’s invasion of Crimea to be illegal. To bad Khrushchev lost it in a poker game to Ukraine during his term in office! :^)
You can’t have a legitimate police state without legitimate show trials, Ted. That would just be Busch League.
The trial was in NYC and Peter King didn’t have a stroke??
One can’t always be lucky….
Henri