ACLU Enlists 9/11 Families To Encourage Terrorist Trials

by Joe Coscarelli | 9:57 am, November 15th, 2009

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“It is of utmost importance to me that those who were responsible for the attacks of 9/11 face a court,” expresses the mother of a fallen firefighter killed on September 11, 2001. This is the sentiment throughout a new video making the rounds online in which family members of 9/11 victims voice their support for federal trials of terrorism suspects.

The video first appeared late in the week, though the interviews were conducted before the Obama administration announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be tried in New York City, while other Guantanamo prisoners would also be brought stateside to face charges.

“My son gave his life to save those trapped in the Twin Towers and it does not honor him that we violate our Constitution in retaliation for what happened on September 11,” one mother says, while another says, “the judges can make a decision based on our Constitution.”

It’s a far cry from the “off with their heads!” heat of Saturday’s NY Post and other arguments of that ilk, but this measured and moving video carries a bit more gravitas, daring to bother with issues of intellectual honesty and human rights. The full clip can be seen below.

(h/t Glenn Greenwald)

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Chuck Varrick says:

November 15, 2009 at 10:56 am

These trials are all designed to be a diversion away from Health Care and Cap and Trade and also to appease their radical leftist zombie base away from Afghanistan by trying to change the subject and keep attention on something else. Additionally, they are trying to get their way with the American people and it’s not going to work. They have no clue as to the pulse of the nation and I look forward to the day when the incompetent so called President named Barry Soetoro and his rather vile administration gets drop kicked out of the White House ball park. Barry doesn’t want his fellow Islamic friends to be put on trial…these thugs are Muslims and we found out with the shootings in Ft. Hood, Muslims shouldn’t harm other Muslims.

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