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If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

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Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

David Beamer, Father of 9/11 Hero and always a gentleman, Lambastes Obama Administration for Stance on Military Trials

Father of 9/11 Hero Lambastes Obama Administration for Stance on Military Trials | The Weekly Standard
APR 7, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Your absolutely riveting read of the day is courtesy David Beamer, the father of Todd Beamer, hero of United flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. First, some context courtesy 9/11 Families for America:

As you know, on Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four 9/11 co-conspirators who have been held in detention at Gimto since September 2006 will be tried before a military tribunal. This announcement comes four years after KSM admitted his central role in the 9/11 attacks and the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The Obama administration suspended the KSM trial one month after he told a military judge that he wished to plead guilty.

Mr. Holder's announcement came more than two years after that trial was suspended by the president, and one day before a Congressional hearing that would have been extremely embarrassing for the Obama administration.

Attached is the text of David Beamer's testimony at that hearing, which took place on April 5, 2011, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.

Here is Beamer's testimony -- and you can bet that the Obama administration doesn't want you to read it:

April 5, 2011
“Justice for America: Using Military Commissions to Try the 9/11 Conspirators”

Chairman Sensenbrenner and Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary:

I appreciate that this hearing is taking place and am thankful for the opportunity to speak today.....

...

How can it be that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, aka, KSM, has not been brought to justice? ...10 YEARS AFTER 2,976 human beings were torn to pieces, four years after KSM bragged about his central role in their destruction and in the unspeakable murder of journalist Daniel Pearl?

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