In 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created to remove enemy foreigners who may not be removed the normal way. It has never been used before, not even after 9/11, until now.
Trump's DOJ has successfully used the ATRC for the first time, deporting an islamic terrorist.
On September 11, 2001, the US military arsenal contained more than 200 strategic bombers, 2,100 fighter jets, 10,500 nuclear warheads, and 550 ICBMs. We could have flattened all of Afghanistan and Pakistan with 1% of our firepower. A rounding error.
Any other great civilization in human history, given the same wealth of military resources, would not have hesitated to do so. Caesar would have completed it before sundown; Sulla would have laughed you out of the Roman Forum (or worse) for even broaching the idea of restraint.
But not the United States. Despite the horrific barbarism we had suffered on our shores, we—more than any great power heretofore in mankind’s history—made every effort to avoid harming civilians and minimize collateral damage. Even when it was to the detriment to our own martial efficacy; even when it meant prioritizing the lives of Afghan locals over American troops.
Then, we did something even more unprecedented: We spent 20 years rebuilding the country that had housed the monsters who murdered our own people. Two decades of grueling deployments for hundreds of thousands of our troops, at an unfathomable cost of blood and treasure. More than 2,000 precious lives lost; $2 trillion of taxpayer funds sent to the most backward country on the planet, an investment never to pay us any return.
America is the greatest country on earth, and the US military is the most morally righteous fighting force ever to march the globe. Keep the aftermath of 9/11 in mind any time someone tells you otherwise.
This is nonsense.
See, Ramzi Kassem didn't take on these cases as some moral obligation because he believed deeply in due process and the legal system.
Ramzi Kassem, by his own admission, was inspired by 9/11 to become a lawyer and move the United States SPECIFICALLY to defend the terrorists we would be capturing in the years to come.
He looked at 9/11 and said 'I have to do my part' -- not to fight terrorism, but to defend terrorists against prosecution by the United States.
That's not a noble act on behalf of the western legal system, that's choosing a side. The side of our enemies. Like many young muslims living in the middle east at the time, he answered the call of jihad. But instead of the Afghan mountains or Fallujah, he chose the courtroom.
And frankly he was able to do far more damage to our nation by moving here and getting a law degree than he would've with an AK-47 in Beirut. Now he's the chief counsel of NYC, the very city where the 9/11 attacks inspired him. The symbolism is unmistakable and sickening.
There is a big difference between an attorney who takes on an unpopular or controversial client because sometimes that's what the profession demands, and an attorney who dedicates his life to defending the most evil among us because he's religiously and ideologically aligned with them.
Ramzi Kassem is the latter. So is Zohran Mamdani.
As an attorney, I was willing to give Ramzi Kassem a pass on representing Al-Qaeda members. Lawyers should not be judged by their clients, and everyone deserves a defense. Then I learned that on Sept 17, 2001 he justified 9/11 and my opinion of that has now changed.
Just extraordinary.
This woman, her party, and nearly the entire political and media establishment of Germany, did everything they could for years to avoid having a "fact-based debate" — indeed everything they could to control the narrative around the statistical data clearly showing the damage that immigration from the Muslim world was doing — and sought to marginalize and shut down or even ban persons, political groups and parties begging for such a debate.
I am very saddened to learn that my friend @ajwimsatt was incomprehensibly murdered Monday. He was a gentle and generous soul, a frequent contributor to Dave's Car ID Service, and a big supporter of my son's music. He will be greatly missed.
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>highly competitive
>looks inside
>2:1 preference for female applicants over equally qualified male counterparts in every field
>the text still doesn't turn green
i am once again thinking about my friend's taiwanese mom who, shortly after gaining citizenship, got her first jury summons
just a few minutes into voir dire they asked her what she thought the penalty for shoplifting should be and she said "death." they sent her home
My least favorite leftie-normie history take is “we armed the Taliban/Osama against the Soviets.” The Taliban didn’t exist. We armed the mujahideen like Massoud, whose forces became the Northern Alliance, spent years fighting the Taliban & al-Qaeda, & became our allies in 2001.
To put this in perspective, if you commit armed robbery with a gun, you are looking at an average sentence of about 13 years federally.
Tate Adamiak got 20 years for a purely nonviolent, malum prohibitum crime.
In New York, the average armed robber gets 5-8 years in prison. Dexter Taylor is serving 10.
What are we doing here, guys?