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<\/a><\/p>\nA trial for the 9\/11 terrorists.\u00a0 Abortion makes men \u201cmore free.\u201d\u00a0 And good news on the environment.<\/p>\n
A Trial for the 9\/11 Terrorists<\/h4>\n
The terrorists who attacked the United States on 9\/11\/2001 killed nearly 3,000 human beings.\u00a0 The immediate perpetrators perished in their suicide missions, but most of the planners were also eventually tracked down.\u00a0 Osama bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALS, and five other al Qaeda members were apprehended and have been incarcerated on Guantanamo, the U.S. naval base in Cuba.<\/p>\n
Finally<\/em>, those five are being brought to trial by a military tribunal.\u00a0 Whereupon three of them, including the 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, The Office of Military Commissions wrote this to the families<\/em> of the 9\/11 victims:\u00a0 \u201cIn exchange for the removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n UPDATE:\u00a0 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austen revoked the plea deal<\/a>.\u00a0 He also revoked the authority of the officer who agreed to it.<\/p>\n I suspect that this was done because a trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other two would bring into the public record information the Pentagon does not want to disclose, such as details about how they have been treated by U.S. forces.\u00a0 Waterboarding may have been the mildest of what they had undergone during their interrogations in those days.\u00a0 Is evidence gained under torture admissible in a court of law?\u00a0 If not, what other evidence do they have?<\/p>\n The question arises, though, why have they not been tried already?\u00a0 They have been locked away for 23 years without a trial.\u00a0 I\u2019m seeing quite a few violations of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution<\/a> here:\u00a0 \u201cIn all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.\u201d\u00a0 Not that the terrorists are entitled to those protections. They committed acts of war, which is why their case is being handled by the military.\u00a0 But a speedy trial is not only a right for an individual, it is also a requirement of justice, both for the sake of deterring similar crimes and giving closure to the victims or their families.<\/p>\n I further suspect that the plea deal was offered because prosecutors worried that a good lawyer could invoke the Sixth Amendment in such a way that the case would have to be dismissed altogether, with the terrorists going free.<\/p>\n Another question arises:\u00a0 If the murder of 2,976 people doesn\u2019t deserve the death penalty, what does?<\/p>\n On the \u201cWhite Dudes for Harris<\/a>\u201d campaign call, a fundraising rally on Zoom attended by some 190,000 white dudes, the cringe-worthy exercise in identity politics included Pete Buttigieg lauding abortion.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t just a matter of \u201cwomen\u2019s freedom,\u201d he said:<\/p>\n Men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion care. Men are more free when the leader of the free world and the leader of this country supports access to birth control and to IVF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Comments Jordan Boyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n The so-called \u201cfreedom\u201d Buttigieg references here is the ability of unmarried men to have recreational sex with whomever they want but avoid becoming tied to the results of that degeneracy thanks to the proliferation of birth control and abortion.<\/p>\n This brutal baby-killing cycle carries a myriad of soul-crushing consequences for everyone involved. Even men, who don\u2019t endure the physical turmoil wrought on female bodies after a baby is forcibly removed via dismemberment or evicted with a\u00a0drug regime<\/a>\u00a0that starves the child to death, can\u00a0suffer the emotional consequences<\/a>\u00a0of losing their offspring to abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Buttigieg is gay, so he added this:\u00a0 \u201cAnd certainly men like me, and my husband, are more free when we have a president who supports our freedom to get married to who we love.\u201d\u00a0 Men in same-sex \u201cmarriages\u201d are especially invested in IVF [in vitro fertilization] and artificial insemination, which allows them to engender babies<\/a> by using their sperm and hiring a surrogate mother, regardless<\/a> of how many embryos are discarded.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past 20 years,\u201d says Bjorn Lomborg, \u201cclimate activists have elevated various stories of climate catastrophe, then quietly dropped them without apology when the opposing evidence becomes overwhelming.\u201d\u00a0 He then gives examples of predicted bad effects that have not happened, for which we should all be grateful.<\/p>\n Lomborg has written an article for the Wall Street Journal<\/em> entitled Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions<\/a>\u00a0[behind a paywall], with the deck, \u201cActivists\u2019 tales of doom never pan out, but they leave us poorly informed and feed bad policy.\u201d<\/p>\n He cites the example of polar bears.\u00a0 The Washington Post<\/em> in 2004 warned that they would become extinct, and Al Gore\u2019s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth<\/em> plucked at our heart strings with\u00a0 a sad cartoon polar bear drifting away on an ice floe to its death.\u00a0 But over the last few decades the population of polar bears has more than doubled, from 12,000 in the 1960s to some 26,000 today.\u00a0 Whatever effects climate change might have had on the bears, he says, is more than offset by policies that restrict their being hunted.<\/p>\n Nature documentaries have long lamented the death of the coral of Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef due to rising ocean temperatures.\u00a0 But over the last three years, says Lomborg, the Great Barrier Reef has had a record amount of coral cover<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some islands in the Pacific were supposed to be underwater due to rising ocean levels.\u00a0 But it turns out that whereas higher tides have caused erosion, they also deposit more sand, which has built up the islands to more than they were formerly.<\/p>\nare being<\/del> were given a plea deal!<\/a><\/p>\nAbortion Makes Men \u201cMore Free\u201d<\/h4>\n
Good News on the Environment<\/h4>\n