Posted by
Seneca on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:22:33 PM
Now that New York City, home of so many "hanging judges", is scheduled to host the 9/11 terrorist trial(s), it seems timely to share some gallows humor to ease the pain.
1. One of our judges should grant an injunction to prevent the prisoners' being transferred here until President Obama has signed the transfer orders, as required by law. Mr Holder lacks the authority to do this on his own.
2. The ACLU should sue to prevent the trial here on the grounds that it is cruel, unprecedented (that includes "unusual"), unnecessary, and undeserved punishment for New Yorkers. Why not Washington, the only City that wants the trial here, or Riyahd, the capital of the country-of-origin of most of the perps ?
3. Mayor Bloomberg should announce that any German Officials sent here to monitor the "torture" aspects of the trial or the use of German-collected evidence to seek the death penalty will be denied access to all NYC owned or subsidized spaces until the German Government has arrested the thousands of former German Stasi employees still at large. Until 20 years ago this organization ran real torture centers and noxious prisons and murdered people for climbing walls. "Never Forget" still applies, but apparently not in Germany.
4. Senators Schumer and What's-Her-Name should demand that the health bill contain at least $500 million in Landrieu Heath and Welfare Grants for New Yorkers for extra security and posslble ambulance and hospital services. (amount ratioed up for greater population)
5. Anticipating the security-driven removal of mailboxes and trash bins, The USPS and the Sanitation Department should procure 500 statues of Eric Holder uniformed on one side as Mailmen and on the other as Sanitation Workers, with clear acrylic receptacles for trash and mail on the appropriate sides.
6 The media should save paper and newsprint and avoid spelling errors by referring to the Defendants as the "Holder 6, less Rich".