OH DEAR LAWD, NOT AGAIN - AT 7:34 P.M. ET:  Do these people ever learn?  Does Barack Obama's Justice Department - Eric Holder, proprietor - ever understand anything?  You won't believe this.  From The New York Times:

Justice Department officials in Washington are close to deciding whether to prosecute several accused Al Qaeda operatives currently being held in the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in federal court in Brooklyn, according to people briefed on the matter.

A decision to try the cases in Brooklyn would mean that major terrorism trials would take place not only in Lower Manhattan, where the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is to be prosecuted blocks from where hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, but also in New York City’s other busy federal courthouse. Officials have said they are also likely to try detainees from Guantánamo in federal courts in Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D.C.

I love it, I love it, I love it.  Are these "officials" living in the real world?

Do you know what Brooklyn is like?  Brooklyn is a place where, not many years ago, a minority kid was on trial for murder, was caught with the bloody knife in his pocket, was identified by his victim before the victim died, and was acquitted.  And after the acquittal, the jury had dinner with the "innocent" man - who later publicly admitted that he was guilty all the while.

This is not the Brooklyn of the Brooklyn Dodgers.  This is liberal, multicultural Brooklyn. 

And don't you love the other possible venues for terror trials?  Alexandria, Virginia - the leftist suburb of Washington.  And Washington itself.

Nothing like stacking the jury deck. 

Any trials set for the American heartland?  Nah.

Oh, and get this:

Police officials have compared the planned security deployment for the Manhattan trials to that for the city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square, but one that will be sustained over many months, at a price tag Mr. Kelly has estimated at well over $75 million in overtime and other costs.

Mr. Holder has suggested that the cost should not be borne by the city alone.

Thanks, Eric.  Start writing the checks.  And if some of our Middle Eastern friends decide to protest the trials by blowing up a school bus, start writing the excuses.

Geez.

December 14, 2009