Osama Brought to Judgment, Not Justice

Osama bin Laden is supposedly dead. Hmmm... Interesting that his body was tossed out to sea. Convenient, isn't it? Reminds me of the cleanup jobs at Oklahoma City and 9/11. Get rid of the evidence as soon as possbile.

For the record, I am sure that bin Laden had something to do with 9/11, so I don't believe he's a good guy. If you want to read a really detailed and insightful book about 9/11, I suggest Michael Ruppert's 600-page, 1,000-footnote "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil." There's a much stronger case to be made against former Vice President Dick Cheney as the mastermind of 9/11 than there is against Osama bin Laden.

I listened to what little coverage of the assassination that I could handle. I found it ironic that commentators talked of the innocents who died on 9/11, but they made no mention of the innocents within the bin Laden compound, specifically, the women who allegedly were used as human shields.

I found it disturbing how often journalists said bin Laden had been "brought to justice." I always thought this meant that someone stands trial and is either convicted and sentenced or found innocent and allowed to go free. But I guess that, too, is changing. Now "brought to justice" means that the government determines your guilt and blows you away without a trial. Is this a new precedent?

On "Bloomberg Market Minute" the reporter said that the markets had gotten a boost with the news that Obama was dead, but then went back down because he's old news and is not all that important to give the stock market a lasting boost. Again, strange to hear a man's death discussed in terms of a temporary asset. I wonder if, at this very moment, Wall Street banksters are wondering, "Whose death would push the market up or down, in our favor, of course?"

The simple truth is that, like Manuel Noriega and Saddham Hussein, Osama bin Laden outlived his usefulness and had to be silenced by prison or death. If the guy would have been captured and put on trial, just imagine what secrets he would have divulged. I seriously can't see him saying to the judge and jury, "You're right. It was 19 of my men, armed with box cutters, who foiled the entire U.S. military forces, intelligence agencies, and air transportation system." In the event of a real Osama trial that was open to the public, we'd all be calling for Dick Cheney to "be brought to justice."