Just How Lame?

How bad a job do you have to do, as a prosecutor, and as a Justice Department, to fail to execute a September 11 conspirator?

For a pro-death penalty administration, I’d say pretty bad.

Zacarias Moussaoui will have no cake walk. He will spend life in prison, in a seven foot wide cell, with a cement and mattress bed. And, he wanted to be executed; to become a martyr to Islam, or a distorted version that inspired 911 type blood-lust.

But let’s face it, the dude was supposed to die. This was 911, the modern Pearl Harbor, and the only conviction was a knuckle-head who missed the whole show. He was probably left behind by the real hijackers when they saw what a numbskull he was.

We know the Bush Administration wanted blood, but they muffed it. When they illegally prepped witnesses, witnesses crucial to the prosecution’s case, and got caught, they threw away any chance of a death sentence.

How lame does your Department of Justice have to be to fail to get the conviction you want from an idiot like Moussaoui?

Well, they do have some other terrorists in custody. Ones that would make an even better trial. But they can’t even convict these guys, let alone fry them. It seems that, while in military custody, these men were tortured, illegally. All of the relevant info they spilled is inadmissible in court.

How lame does your Attorney General have to be to sign off on the torturing of prisoners?

And Osama? He is free to make videos at will. We know generally where he is, summering and wintering between our heroin exporting ally Afghanistan, and our nuclear-armed and thug-run ally Pakistan. We apparently don’t have time to track him down, though. We are too busy killing people in Iraq, and preparing for nuclear war with Iran.

How lame does a president have to be to get it all so wrong?

And, how lame are we? Are we going to hand the keys to Hell’s elevator to this president by electing him another Republican congress? If not, are we going to check the Democrats by defeating incumbents like Lieberman, and Maria Cantwell, and other Administration apologists?

We, the voters will be the lamest of all if we don’t get busy in the primary season, and let our Democrats know that we just don’t want a change of parties, we want a change of government. We want a real democracy, real representation of our districts and our interests.

How lame will we be if we vote Republican, or for conservative Democrats? We will be the lamest of all. And will deserve exactly what we get.