I got an scary spam from a rightwing zealot named Drew McKissick, who calls himself a "conservative." (BTW, I checked, since Drew is a unisex first name: he is a he.) I say "who calls himself a 'conservative'" in scare quotes because he doesn't believe in the rule of law. I am not sure how anyone can be a conservative if they don't believe in the basic rule of law.
McKissick is incensed because the terrorist Khalif Sheikh Muhammad is going to get a trial. This terrorist is going to get his day in court. This terrorist will hire lawyers--- HIGH-PRICED lawyers-- to help him mount a defense. If the government fails to prove its case, LIBERAL jury members and judges might acquit him. We can't let a terrorist have CIVIL RIGHTS, McKissick warns us.
McKissick wants President Obama to revoke the sheikh's civil rights and stop the trial. He forgets that Obama might be able to do the same thing to other unpopular evil doers. He might revoke the civil rights of corporate CEOs who pay themselves megabuck bonuses after running their companies into the ground, for example.
Fellow Conservative,
Believe it or not, Barack Obama plans to allow 9/11 terrorist
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others to have a trial in
New York...with the same full legal and civil rights that American
citizens enjoy!
And you know what that means. High priced lawyers paid for with OUR
tax dollars.
That means a media circus show-trial, and a high profile recruiting
opportunity for terrorists.
It means the possibility that they might actually be acquitted
because of liberal judges or jury members.
It means a public trial that could reveal national security secrets
to our enemies - and harm national security.
And in the process, they will make New York a target for other
terrorists!
Click here and contact your members of Congress and say NO!
Tell them you oppose bringing terrorists onto American soil and
granting them access to our justice system.
Demand that they be kep in isolation in Guantanamo Bay and tried by a
military tribunal as war criminals.
Tell them to DEMAND that Obama reverse this decision immediately!
Tell them NO civil rights for terrorists!
Click here and let them hear from you today.
Sincerely,
Drew McKissick
Conservative Outpost