re: #122 darthstar

This is a ‘nontroversy’ and New York City isn’t going to be bankrupted by the trial. Of course there will be federal funds for security. Really, the current security would be fine for the trial if it wasn’t for the media circus that will ultimately take place and inspire the crazies to come out and compete for attention.

Most “security” costs will be for crowd control when groups of teabaggers show up to “protest” trying and convicting these terrorists (because we’ve got a different president…they didn’t protest Moussaoui’s trial, or Richard Reid’s).

You might end up being absolutely correct about that, but I’m curious how you seem to know this before anything has happened yet.

And as far as making a ‘mockery’ of the legal system - indefinite detention without charges for the last eight years did plenty of that already. These guys wouldn’t be coming to trial if there was a chance they’d get off.

Why do you say there is “no chance” they’ll get off? Isn’t that the purpose of a trial to begin with, to determine guilt or not? If it’s known they won’t “get off”, what’s the purpose of the trial?