A slap in the face

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July 13, 2010

Anonymous Jacksonville Daily Progress The Jacksonville Daily Progress Tue Jul 13, 2010, 07:13 PM CDT

JACKSONVILLE — There is a critical issue that affects the national security of America — and the safety of all Americans.

It is a wide-open platform in U.S. civilian courts for the Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind, the Christmas bomber and other terrorists.

Key evidence could be repressed because of risks to the U.S. intelligence operations, weakening the prosecution’s case against the suspect-killers.

We are considering war crimes that should be tried by military tribunals, as they have been since the days of George Washington.

Terrorists would actually have more rights and privileges in civil trials than our own soldiers have in a court martial.

Jihadists would be free to spew their anti-American poison in the media, God forbid.

Why does Obama and his no-good attorney general continue to slap we, the American people, in the face?

Corbin Priefert,

Tyler

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