Hasan is going to plead innocent by reason of insanity. You know what’s great about this? No. Not that I predicted it. What’s great about this is that the 9/11 terrorists are also pleading not guilty and they say flat out it is because they want their show trial. They want their chance to tell the American people why we suck and why we need to all just lay down and die.
Music to President Obama’s ear because he seems to agree based on the speeches he’s been giving all over the world, and hopefully loud enough to wake this country the hell up. If more that 10 percent of Americans can stand to listen to that tune, can see those images again without throwing up, Then I will have to concede that this is not the country I grew up in and that we are, in fact, lost to history. If Americans settle in for the show with Chianti and Fava Beans then … THEN we will know who we are as a nation and those of us who have been fighting to restore it can get the real picture of America and not some idealized image.
But in this, I am an optimist. These trials are going to be 444 days of Iran Hostage redux that make Obama look like an insipid asshat and reveal this administration to every sleeping citizen to the point of nightmares. Leonard Pitts, a rabid racist and Obama follower, is going to be right for the second time in his career.
“You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. What lesson did you hope to teach us (…)”
by these show trials?
“Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.
Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.
Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.”
Obama. You will bring us together again.
“Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We’re frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae — a singer’s revealing dress, a ball team’s misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We’re wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though — peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.
Some people — you, perhaps — think that any or all of this makes us weak. You’re mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals. ”
(…)
“When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice. I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future. In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again.You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people who don’t know us well. On this day, the family’s bickering is put on hold. As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish. So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that’s the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don’t know my people. You don’t know what we’re capable of. You don’t know what you just started.
But you’re about to learn.
“
Google “Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001 The Miami Herald Leonard Pitts We’ll go forward from this moment.” For the original.
Let the show begin. This is the end of Obama. I promise you that. I don’t think I am wrong about this country and her people. I don’t think we are so far gone that we can’t come back. In a way? We should be thanking Holder and Obama for this because it’s a slap in the face we needed to wake the hell up.
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