re: #299 NJDhockeyfan

The minute they step on to US soil they get the same rights as us, correct? (I’m no lawyer but that is what I understand.) If so there is a chance they could go to trial, be found ‘not guilty’, and be released on to our streets.

Allow me to reprint an excerpt from a short story I wrote about a few years back:

The courtroom erupted. Osama looked up, totally taken aback but remained calm, as did his defense team and the prosecution. It took nearly an eternal five minutes to restore order to the court, involving repeated forceful raps of the gavel. As it came, the courtroom and by extension the world waited with baited breath.
The judge began again. “By the authority granted to me by this special law, I hereby set aside the death sentence and set free the defendant. No one in this courtroom, and no one in this building is to hinder or assist in the exit of Mister bin Laden from this building. Also, no one is to exit from this building until I give permission to do so.” As the judge rendered his decision, the bailiff walked over to the defense table and began to unlock bin Laden’s cuffs and shackles.
“Mister bin Laden, you are free to go. This court is adjourned.” He slammed down the gavel for the last time. It was followed by a silence felt around the world. Osama bin Laden rose from his chair a free man. He slowly walked out of the courtroom…only to find the corridors outside totally deserted and tranquil.
He could not believe what he was seeing. His pace quickened as he approached the main security checkpoints used for inspecting visitors and workers entering the courthouse. No one manned the posts and the doors to freedom and fresh air were just ahead.
He reached them and opened a door. Outside he looked up, saw the sunny skies, and found a lone car waiting at the base of the fifty steps to take him to Queens and John F. Kennedy International Airport. Again he found total desertion and tranquility.
He shouted at the top of his lungs in Arabic, “God is Great!” which echoed among the tall buildings of the city; he commenced running down the steps toward the waiting limousine. On the twenty-sixth step, a noise emanated from the streets so quickly that by the time he reached the thirty-seventh step, it was deafening. Osama witnessed a massive throng of New Yorkers bypassing the waiting limo and surrounding him.
It was at this moment that Osama bin Laden knew the finality of his life was at hand. He realized the softhearted mercy of the complacent American people was a fallacy. His eyes widened with terror as the crowd surged forward and engulfed him in their midst.
And Osama bin Laden got it in THE END!!