McConnell cites Anthony trial outcome as reason not to try terrorists in US

[deminks]

""We found with the Caylee Anthony case how difficult it is to get a conviction in a US court,"

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-mcconnell-anthony-20110711,0,5389000.story?track=rss

The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, says the Casey Anthony trial is proof that American courts aren't proper venues for trials of suspected terrorists.

"We found with the Caylee Anthony case how difficult it is to get a conviction in a U.S. court," McConnell said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

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Anybody else find this ominous? Or is it just his stupid showing?

[MichiganVote]

1. You know, I think this guy has Dementia. Seriously.

[TheKentuckian]

7. No, he has been quite evil and extremely willfully ignorant for decades.

He has become somewhat more incoherent in more recent years but I attribute much of that with having to focus on non-money stealing and hoarding issues other than application of the police state.

I don't think he buys any of the social conservative stuff and doesn't like all the wild eyed shit that might impede commerce. He is more of an old school right winger and can't get his lines or bogus arguments together but has to make them to be the top puke.

Don't get me wrong, he is far beyond Mr Potter on the evil scale and has plenty of Cheney in him as well but the shit they push to keep the theocrats is not his particular bag of wickedness.

[MichiganVote]

8. Oh I know he's one of the resident nuts in Congress but he isn't make sense more and more.

[madaboutharry]

11. +1

[FSogol]

2. McConnell doesn't believe in our system of government. That's why he's trying so hard to destroy it

He makes me :puke:

[Canuckistanian]

3. Yeah, NOBODY gets convicted in America

All those prisoners are in the pen voluntarily because of guilty consciences.

[spanone]

4. does mitchie think we need like an american idol justice system? internet poll to execute?

he appears a quasi-intelligent man....could be i'm a worse judge of character than i thought

[ljm2002]

5. Someone needs to remind old Turtleneck...

...that the United States has more people imprisoned than ANY other country in the world, including China. Does he think that happened by us not being able to get convictions?

I am beginning to hate politicians in general.

[0rganism]

6. Innocence must be an impossibility!

All who are accused are automatically GUILTY AS CHARGED! :crazy:

[Unvanguard]

9. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. n/t

[muntrv]

10. Mitch doesn't believe in innocent until proven guilty.

[Horse with no Name]

12. The ONLY terrorists in this country that need to be tried

are the treasonous republican bastards and I would rather see them tried at the Hague.

[provis99]

13. so rather than doing his job, he was watching the Anthony case?

Fire him for laziness.

[Lyric]

14. It's SUPPOSED to be difficult. It should be one of the hardest things in the world.

The places in the world where convictions are EASY are the places where almost none of us would choose to live--places that value human life cheaply.

Taking away someone's rights, someone's freedom, their very existence? If you value human life at all, then YES--legally taking that life away should be so hard that it hardly ever happens.