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Home Front: WoT
Dem Congressman: 'It's Unamerican' To Oppose U.S. Terror Trials
2009-11-14
Rep. Jim Moron Moran (D-VA)has strong words for the Republicans opposing Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to bring five 9/11 suspects to New York City to face trial. "They see this as an opportunity to demagogue," he said. "They will seize on any opportunity to do that, and that means they'll even take a stand that's un-American."
"Well, we ain't gonna stand fer it! We're gonna start us a House Un-American Activities Committee!"
How exactly is it un-American to demand justice?
"It's un-American to hold anyone indefinitely without trial," Moran added. "It's against our principles as a nation."
"I question their patriotism."
It's certainly not against our principles as a nation. We interned enough German and Italiano PoWs in the Second World War. And we hung spies, saboteurs, and war criminals, as well.
We don't want them detained indefinitely. Hanging will do just fine ...
Moran, who represents the Congressional district closest to D.C., was among the only members of Congress to advocate President Obama's plan to send prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. so the military prison could be shut down.

Obama first proposed the idea shortly after being elected and most in Congress rejected the plan, saying that bringing terror suspects to this country would endanger American lives. Today, many politicians raised those same fears. Moran dismissed them.

"Right now, they're sitting in Guantanamo gaining sympathy," he said. "The sooner that we prosecute this guy, the sooner we can reduce the anti-American propaganda that surrounds his detention and inflames our enemies."
Gaining sympathy from who, exactly ...
"Until we do that, it only strengthens the hand of people who recruit new terrorists with the clame claim we aren't true to our principles," he added.
Saul Alinsky in action: force us to live up to our own beliefs, while the jihadis can live down to theirs. The terrorists do not have the same rights as American citizens. Perhaps a Pub-controlled Congress could make that clear.
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