{"id":2063,"date":"2009-11-20T02:36:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2009-11-20T02:40:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:40:02","slug":"terrorist-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/11\/20\/terrorist-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraidy-Cat Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Republicans, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_11\/021077.php\">way too dangerous for Obama&#8217;s Attorney General Eric Holder to try terrorists in federal courts.<\/a>  And that seems just a wee bit odd. Because the 2002 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, an al Qaeda terrorist often referred to as the &#8220;20th 9\/11 hijacker,&#8221; was conducted in federal court on U.S. soil.  And it went rather well &#8212; even Rudy Giuliani loved it!<\/p>\n<p>Yet Rudy and his Republican ilk now seem terrified at the very thought of trying alleged 9\/11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed<br \/>\nin a New York City federal courthouse. <\/p>\n<p>So, did the terrorists win between 2002 and now? Have Republicans turned yellow? Or is this simply another case of GOP hypocrisy?<\/p>\n<p>Fraidy-Cat Republicans (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A terrorist trial in fed court<br \/>\nUnder Bush met with pride and support.<br \/>\nNo GOP sneers &#8212;<br \/>\nJust Republican cheers.<br \/>\nBut a Dem do the same?  Must abort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Republicans, it&#8217;s way too dangerous for Obama&#8217;s Attorney General Eric Holder to try terrorists in federal courts. And that seems just a wee bit odd. Because the 2002 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, an al Qaeda terrorist often referred to as the &#8220;20th 9\/11 hijacker,&#8221; was conducted in federal court on U.S. soil. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,95,466,707,20,159,710,76,2,168,154,6,7,3,9,63],"tags":[759,1014,1011,522,1010,1013,2781,1008,1009],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911-satire","category-barack-obama","category-crime","category-gitmo-humor","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-jeff-sessions","category-justice-department","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rudy-giuliani","tag-al-qaeda","tag-criminal-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-hypocrisy","tag-khalid-sheikh-mohammed","tag-law-humor","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-terrorist-trials","tag-zacarias-moussaoui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}