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Pence bragged in Wednesday’s debate about bringing two ISIS killers of American citizens “to justice in the United States.”
In other words, they’re going to prosecute them in federal courts, not send them to Gitmo.
Trump and Pence criticized Obama for that. “We can’t treat terrorists like common criminals,” Trump said. “Trying terrorists like ordinary criminals puts international public relations ahead of public safety and makes a mockery of American justice,” Pence said.
Pence called the Obama administration’s decision to prosecute five 9/11 plotters in U.S. courts “the most naive and dangerous decision I have ever witnessed the United States government make.”
Actually, it’s not; in the pantheon of FUBARs, it’s a minor one, if a FUBAR* at all. The U.S. government has made lots of decidedly more naive and dangerous decisions. For example, partaking in the Bay of Pigs fiasco that nearly led to nuclear war. (But Pence was only 2 years old then, so he didn’t personally witness that one.)
(*If you don’t know what this means, ask your kids; I can’t post it here, but they know all the unprintable words.)
So now the Trump regime is doing what they criticized Obama for, but hypocrisy isn’t exactly new to these guys, is it?
Not that being prosecuted in federal court for terrorism, murder, and kidnapping is a sleigh ride. They can’t get the death penalty — the U.S. waived it to obtain their extradition from Britain — but if convicted they’ll spend the rest of their lives in small concrete boxes at ADX Florence. Ask the other terrorists and bombers housed there how they’re enjoying their stay. Wait, you can’t, they’re hermetically sealed off from the world.
Photo: At ADX Florence, prisoners spend 23 hours a day in cells like these, and get 1 hour of exercise in a cage. It’s the ultimate solitary, and has been described as “hell on earth.”