The New American System Of Justice - Jimmy Breslin

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres043610286jan04,0,2998631.column

"Forward!" I commanded.

"I'm not going there," the cabdriver said. He stopped in the middle of the street, short of Columbus Circle.

Just ahead was a wall of guns, a neon arsenal, around the big new rich hotel, the Mandarin.

In all my time in my city I have never seen this many guns. Not just little guns that you fit in a holster. But great big cannons that were being held by men peering out from under helmets and dressed otherwise for battle.

"They look like they're afraid that someone is going to get killed," I said.

"Me," the cabdriver said.

Worth reading. Another snip:

Howard Dean then said that he was old-fashioned and he didn't think you could judge or punish Osama bin Laden until you had a trial and found him guilty.

Suddenly, politicians and the news industry shouted, What are you talking about innocent until found guilty? How can this man Dean say that bin Laden deserves a trial? They said that this was a perfect illustration of Dean talking without thought. And completely un-American, too.

In 1945, they had the Nuremburg trials for Nazis who had killed tens and tens of millions, and had judges, witnesses, evidence and defense counsels. Just the other week, one of the Democratic candidates, Wesley Clark, testified in the Hague at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia.

He did a beautiful job of demolishing Drooliani after
the 9/11 disaster.