Gibbs: KSM Will "Meet His Maker"

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Gibbs: KSM Will "Meet His Maker"


By Jeralyn, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 02:12:12 PM EST
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Why bother with a trial? Just call out the firing squad. Here's Obama Press secretary Robert Gibbs today:
"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he’s going to meet his maker," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told John King on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning. "He's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes he committed," he added.
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Former SDNY AUSA Cynthia Kouril at Firedoglake weighs in on this one. (Extra props for mentioning defense counsel.) [More...]

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The New York Times in an editorial today on why the trials should be held in a federal criminal court:
This trial would draw attention if it were held atop Pikes Peak. And isn’t the idea of a public trial a bedrock principle of American justice?
Holding the trial in New York would be inconvenient. Democracy makes demands on its citizens. It is inconvenient to serve on a jury, too. This was just not-in-my-backyard-ism. Nearly 10 years after 9/11, it is sad if this country cannot freely conduct its business in Lower Manhattan.
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[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Obama's support of the death penalty honestly makes me not want to vote for him in 2012. Before his position irritated me, but it was mostly shrouded in the high-sounding jibber jabber that marked his campaign. Now that he's just spouting off the bloodthirsty rhetoric of the far right, I find it difficult to imagine that a person who thinks like that is capable of making good decisions. [/FONT]
 
Atheistmark said:
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Obama's support of the death penalty honestly makes me not want to vote for him in 2012. Before his position irritated me, but it was mostly shrouded in the high-sounding jibber jabber that marked his campaign. Now that he's just spouting off the bloodthirsty rhetoric of the far right, I find it difficult to imagine that a person who thinks like that is capable of making good decisions. [/FONT]
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I agree. I cringed when I heard this. It echoes back to bush and his pledge to get bin Laden, dead or alive.

However, I am in favor of having the trial here in Pgh. It's one of the cities under consideration.
 
Atheistmark said:
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Obama's support of the death penalty honestly makes me not want to vote for him in 2012. Before his position irritated me, but it was mostly shrouded in the high-sounding jibber jabber that marked his campaign. Now that he's just spouting off the bloodthirsty rhetoric of the far right, I find it difficult to imagine that a person who thinks like that is capable of making good decisions. [/FONT]
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I think it entirely consistent to oppose the institution of the death penalty on the one hand and to support it as applied to individual circumstances on the other.
 
Atheistmark said:
The death penalty has absolutely no use in the modern world besides as a source of entertainment for conservatives. To see Obama tap into this feeling causes me to lose the small amount of respect for him that I had left.
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Really? What did you expect? Obama to say that he thinks the Justice Department shouldn't seek the most severe punishment allowed by law for one of the terrorists behind 9/11?
 
NigelTufnel said:
I think it entirely consistent to oppose the institution of the death penalty on the one hand and to support it as applied to individual circumstances on the other.
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I didn't say Obama wasn't being consistent. Just that he's showing his true colors now. He's not a thinking person.
 
NigelTufnel said:
How does Gibbs saying something on a Sunday talk show render the trial that may or may not occur a "sham?"
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lmao, of course you wouldn't see that way, you have your nose so far up obama's keester all you smell is dung in heaps....

obama wants these guys to have trials, fair trials....yet, he is out there vis a vis his spokeperson....saying the guy is going to "meet his maker"....IOW, he is making inflammatory and prejudicial public comments that could influence a jury. while the AG's office is part of the executive branch, don't you find it stupid to say...i want to give these guys fair and constitutional trials, i know they are guilty and are going to die, but i want them to have fair trials.....

why not stick with the military tribunals then?
 
Obama has always been for the death penalty. You know, when you break down his views, it's actually kind of surprising that he was popular with the white liberals before the mainstream of the party.

But economic views are the bread and butter of both political parties, and Obama has proven to be a reliable leftist, even as he sometimes speaks some market gospel.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
Obama has always been for the death penalty. You know, when you break down his views, it's actually kind of surprising that he was popular with the white liberals before the mainstream of the party.

But economic views are the bread and butter of both political parties, and Obama has proven to be a reliable leftist, even as he sometimes speaks some market gospel.
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It just goes to show how delusional you've become that you would describe anything Obama does at all as "leftist".
 
Atheistmark said:
It just goes to show how delusional you've become that you would describe anything Obama does at all as "leftist".
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How is this delusional?

If he weren't President, he would most likely be happy to tell you that he's to the left on economics. But in a position of national leadership he has to call it being his brother's keeper. And tax collector. And central economic planner.
 
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