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There have been a total of three people tried and convicted in military courts. Two were released and are walking the street right now. One is in Australia, and the other is in Yemen.
So why and how can anyone argue that this is "safer" than civilian courts?
Well, on the other side of the argument, people have been cherry-picking* their numbers. 300 terrorists have been convicted in federal courts. No, two dozen. Wait, 190 ... is this a fact, or the Windows file load estimate?
Politics. Come on, guys. The real numbers aren't mind-blowing, but they still beat the crap out of Guantanamo.
#1 - Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber"
#2 - Bryant Neal Vinas, an American convicted of supporting al-Qaida plots in Afghanistan and the United States
#3 - Mohammed Jabarah, a Canadian who was active in al-Qaida and convicted of terrorism-related offenses
#4 - Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani-American who plotted to bomb Herald Square in New York
#5 - Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani-American convicted of terrorist-related offenses in New York, and who testified in 2006 against a group of men accused of plotting bomb attacks in London.
And finally, think about it. 300? And those are the ones we caught? That's close to a solid year of terrorist-a-day. You have to radically re-think your idea of terrorism, or believe airplanes and buses are exploding like an apocalypse movie.
*Andy McCarthy is functionally disabled. He uses an example of failing to coordinate their efforts to suggest a conspiracy between the ACLU and Obama administration, and later in the same article, failing to deceive the public, as evidence of trying to deceive the public. But he correctly notes the discrepancies in the numbers.
So why and how can anyone argue that this is "safer" than civilian courts?
Well, on the other side of the argument, people have been cherry-picking* their numbers. 300 terrorists have been convicted in federal courts. No, two dozen. Wait, 190 ... is this a fact, or the Windows file load estimate?
Politics. Come on, guys. The real numbers aren't mind-blowing, but they still beat the crap out of Guantanamo.
#1 - Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber"
#2 - Bryant Neal Vinas, an American convicted of supporting al-Qaida plots in Afghanistan and the United States
#3 - Mohammed Jabarah, a Canadian who was active in al-Qaida and convicted of terrorism-related offenses
#4 - Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani-American who plotted to bomb Herald Square in New York
#5 - Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani-American convicted of terrorist-related offenses in New York, and who testified in 2006 against a group of men accused of plotting bomb attacks in London.
And finally, think about it. 300? And those are the ones we caught? That's close to a solid year of terrorist-a-day. You have to radically re-think your idea of terrorism, or believe airplanes and buses are exploding like an apocalypse movie.
*Andy McCarthy is functionally disabled. He uses an example of failing to coordinate their efforts to suggest a conspiracy between the ACLU and Obama administration, and later in the same article, failing to deceive the public, as evidence of trying to deceive the public. But he correctly notes the discrepancies in the numbers.