In the years since, “9/11” has turned into a shorthand for patriotic kitsch for the Wingnutteria, and doesn’t describe a horrific mass murder. For the flag-waving wingnut set, 9/11 brings to mind commemorative plates and coins, paintings of crying bald eagles, and the background noise for torture porn like “24”. There are many layers of kitsch and meaning between the phrase and the memory of the World Trade Centers collapsing (much less a plane hitting the Pentagon)....Not to worry, there is no possibility that some Bush-Derangement-Syndrome victim will go lone-wolf juror. Because everyone is so rational and patriotic. Or something like that.
The World Trade Center doesn’t mean much to them now; what’s important is "Ground Zero”, a memorial that they imagine was built to honor their own wounded sense of self-righteous patriotism. If you don’t think of New York City as completely real, then of course it’s easy to make the leap into thinking that a New York jury would do fantastical things, like let Khalid Shaik Mohammed go free, or take him seriously as an intellectual person.
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Even more so the Muslim Americans they'll need to have on that jury of his peers. What's a hung jury require?
ReplyDeletePlease do not help in the purge of that great right of free men - Jury Nullification.
ReplyDeleteIt may be all we have left should the government pursue incarceration for those unwilling to surrender their right to keep their own money rather than buy a government approved health insurance plan.
The unethical left has already considered using Jury Nullification, and is making it an option in their strategy to condemn all efforts to safeguard this country in the past.