NEW YORK JUSTICE – AT 5:16 P.M. ET:  This, from the New York Daily News, shows why it's so risky to have the mastermind of 9-11 tried in New York, with a New York jury:

A Manhattan grand jury voted Tuesday not to charge a Muslim jail chaplain with trying to sneak razors into a city jail, his defense lawyer said.

An ex-con who served time for a 1976 murder, Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid told a grand jury that he'd forgotten the potential weapons were in his duffel bag, his lawyer said.

Abdu-Shahid, 58, was busted when a metal detector revealed he had straight razors and scissors in his bag as he reported to work at the Manhattan Detention Complex last week.

COMMENT:  Yes sirree.  Every man carries straight razors and scissors in his bag.  We all know that. 

Well, at least the D.A. tried to indict him.  You know the old saying, "A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to."  Apparently, not in New York. 

I'd love to know the makeup of the grand jury.  You'd have thought that any common-sense grand jury would have indicted the ex-con, and allowed the case to go to trial.  Apparently, we must not offend.

The jails are filled with radicalized Muslims, and we know that radicalization takes place through the work of outside visitors. 

Compare this please to the number of cases you've read about where kids are suspended from school, or worse, because they have aspirin in their bag or forgot that they had a screwdriver with them.

Would you trust a major terror trial to jurors like this?

February 10, 2010