Question: Does anybody know what US Attorney General/Terror Trial Avatar Eric Holder plans to do with this Nigerian crotch-rocket bomber guy? I mention this because he seems to have gone stone-silent on one of his signature issues issues as Attorney General: to protect the rights of isolated extremists doing things like packing themselves onto airplanes with C4 supplied by other isolated extremists in a random confluence of isolated extremist activity.
Maybe Holder will turn Defendant Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab over to the Wayne County District Attorney? Set him loose in Detroit if he can make bail? Maybe get into an extradition fight with the Dutch over him? How about charging him with a violation of the the Honest Services Law? Better yet, charge him with the RICO statute, get him to sing, and then serve subpoenas and arrest warrants in Yemen and on the House of Saud. Tough to do though, because Holder's got a boss and we've got a commander-in-chief whom--channeling J. Edgar Hoover and the mob--refuses to acknowledge that organized terrorism even exists. Just a big bunch of isolated extremists randomly bumping into each other like so many beta particles.
[Yet the president can organize a special-forces operation to destroy New York's governor and then bury his state in a billion dollars worth of health care reform.
Hmm. Bin Laden or Paterson? New York or Yemen? Strong horse or weak horse? What a deep contradiction in the art of enlightened war-making.
I may need to go back and re-read Zen and the Art of Sand Kicking.]
It's unconscionably troubling that Obama, Holder and Homeland Security Czar Janet Napolitano are the same people masterminding New York City's security in the KSM trial. That they even pretend to do so is absurd. Think about it: Abdulmutallab's father calls in his own son, the kid's got no visa, he books a one-way flight with no luggage other than a big bulge in his crotch, his supervisors were sprung from Gitmo on an creative arts furlough, whom DHS and FBI already knew about (just like the Fort Hood fruit loop), and a DHS Secretary--channeling Brownie--stating that the system worked. All superintended by a president who can't seem to find it within him to utter the word, "terrorist."
Here's an interesting question: Has Janet Napolitano ever seen a NYC subway map?
Let me assure you that none of the above is ill-tempered, superfluous rhetoric to the folks living in Lower Manhattan. And Upper Manhattan. And Brooklyn. And Queens. And The Bronx. And Northern New Jersey. And Long Island. And the rest of New York.
Not to worry though, we can all sleep better tonight in the knowledge that crotch-bomber won't get waterboarded and get his three (Halal) squares a day. Because Eric said so.
If you really and truly believe that terrorists throughout the globe are not planning on punking Obama, Holder and Napolitano--and haven't from Day One of the Enlightened Era--you're as stupid as me and the president think you are.
