Perhaps you have seen this little news story recently:
"Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, says he plans to plead guilty, The Washington Post reported.
"If a judge finds Moussaoui mentally competent, he could enter the plea as early as this week, the Post reported in Tuesday's editions, citing sources familiar with the case.
"The government accused Moussaoui of participating in an al-Qaida conspiracy to commit terrorism that included the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. "
-From the AP, shamelessly thieved from Salon.com.
For those of you who've been living in caves up in the Adirondacks, Moussaoui is the man the government accuses of being the alleged 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
Or is he..?
If Moussaoui is the alleged 20th hijacker, then who in the hell is this man?
"More than 20 detainees have been positively identified as Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguards and one as his close 'spiritual advisor,' according to the report. Another is listed as the 'probable 20th 9/11 hijacker' -- a Saudi man named Mohamed al-Kahtani who made it to Orlando, Fla., before being deported just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks."
-Pilfered from the LA Times via Salon's War Room.
OK, so if al-Kahtani is the alleged 20th hijacker, who the fuck is letting Moussaoui plead guilty? Oh, I see what's going on: Since apparently the military and the DoJ don't fricking talk to one another, and since one is being tried in the civil system and one is being held to (presumably) one day have his day in front of a military tribunal, they can be convicted of being the SAME GODDAMN PERSON.
Ah, good ol' American justice.
I'm all for convicting terrorists and chucking their asses in jail for nigh on eternity, but shouldn't we at least make a pretense at sticking to the values of the system we're supposedly defending from destruction at the hands of "evil fascist Islamist fundamentalist homosexuals" or whatnot?
-Jim