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Holder Defends 9/11 Trial Decision

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Cineaste11/18/2009 11:25:37 am PST

re: #278 albusteve

I think you may have some kind of complex…I’m a NYer. we’er better than that, we’ll survive…blah blah…you see no heightened security risk, bring it on…all the while blowing off tribunals as an alternative…you are pretty selfish

Read what I said. I don’t care if he’s in a civilian court or a tribunal. That being said, the MCA was a badly written piece of legislation (no surprise, given the authors) and it has posed a host of legal problems ever since. I’m just not afraid of him being tried in public. We’re better than that. I don’t see why you think we can’t handle it as a society?

Please explain to me the “heightened” security risk we’ll face if that man is tried here, as opposed to all the other terrorists and drug king-pins we’ve tried here? (frankly, many of the drug king-pins are tried south of here but you know what I’m saying)