Terrorist Lawyers Want to Excuse Clients Actions
By Pete Fisher (12/29/05)
It is no shock to most Americans that some lawyer somewhere would take on a ludicrous case that protects the criminal acts of those who desire to harm our society.
We have seen inane cases where people have sued for the most ridiculous of things, and have actually won. To an intelligent and moral observer, this is indeed a bastardization of justice as we understand it. Whether a murderer gets off due to some small error in police procedures, or because the jury has allowed themselves to be deceived by emotion rather than common sense, we see it every week here.
And the cycle continues. The attorneys for Lyman Faris are looking to get this terrorist off the hook by attempting to discredit the government tactics used in arresting him. They claim the wire taps used are illegal and therefore, the man who fully admitted he had intended to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, going off to his native Pakistan and training with Al Qaeda, meeting with Bin Laden, and sending coded messages in his quest to bring to ruin an American icon. So his phone was tapped. Big deal. The government was looking for terrorists inside and outside of our borders to avoid any more attacks. The administration did not tap every phone in America; they did not abuse the wire tapping and use it to find evidence on ordinary Americans.
They tapped conversations that were found to be connected to terrorists overseas and on our own soil. Of course we should all have concerns about any government entity using powers like that against citizens, but I do not see that here.
I see the government tapping known sources of terror and nabbing a few fish in the net that happened to be trying to destroy our way of life. In my thinking, the idiots who knew the government would be snooping around the terrorist world should have known better than to make a phone call to Pakistan on several occasions and make references to destroying things.
But once again, this trial will not be about common sense, it is about some attorney trying to bring about a dangerous precedence for whatever personal and professional reasons they may have. It makes no difference to these people that this man actually gave a vivid confession of his intentions. Nor do they seem concerned about destruction that could have been had not the government tapped phones that were suspect. They seem concerned with their names being associated with a case so ridiculous and so lacking in common sense that should they win it, they would be immortalized somehow.
This nation, the one they practice law in, and I use the word practice with sarcasm, gave them all the opportunity in the world to become successful. We provided the educational opportunities and the capitalism that they can take advantage of and become wealthy individuals. And this is how they repay us, by making a weak attempt at protecting those who desire our downfall. Yet they still get offended at all the lawyer jokes that fly through society and wonder just how they could have gotten such a reputation. And I speak only of attorneys who seemingly have no other agenda but to see just how far the justice system can be stretched or how much fame can be gotten through testing the intelligence of the American citizenry in a courthouse.
This was a man who spoke with and trained with the leader of the most cowardly and vicious organization on the planet today. He received and sent intelligence to these people. So tell me citizens, putting aside the ideology of government powers abusing our rights for another time, because I see this as a totally different issue, why should a man like this even be defended at all? He spoke with pride about his intention to destroy. His conversations were tapped because he was calling Bin Ladens’ people. Not because he was simply a Muslim or an Arabic male. He made phone calls to places and people that were highly suspect of terror activity.
After 9-11 we knew that the government was looking for these fiends. We all know the capabilities they have in tracking them down, and we who have common sense know that this is not an illegal activity. It has been used in drug busts and in murder trials, remember Scott Peterson and his chats with Amber? They tapped Petersons’ phone because he was a prime suspect and no one complained much when those tapes were played and the fact that Peterson is sitting in prison due to the role those tapes played in his trial. Federal law prohibits the providing of material support and resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations. Al Qaeda was designated by the Secretary of State in 1999 to be a foreign terrorist organization, and re-designated as such in October 2001.
We need to stand up and speak out for the administration in this case because it was the right thing to do. They did not walk around using wire tapping to entrap ordinary citizens to drum up charges or gain leverage. They tapped lines and conversations that were going back and forth to people and places with terror activity. To try and use the political divide in this nation between Conservatives and Liberals is a travesty at best. To play on peoples fears about governmental abuse of power is cheap. To use this tactic to free a terrorist who came to America and enjoyed the freedoms he did not enjoy in Pakistan is a shame. These other pending cases to negate the wire taps are in the same category. The bottom line is we should never allow the abuse of power in this nation by government if it has been proven to be just that.
But we should also not allow the abuse of the legal system by those who claim to practice and uphold the law when they would free a Barabbas and crucify a Christ to further their own personal agendas.
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