Whereas, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced he will move the trial of confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from a military court in Guantanamo to a civilian court in New York City, where Mohammed's evil plans resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocents;

Whereas, in so doing, Holder has implicitly awarded this confessed foreign terrorist all the constitutional rights due a U.S. citizen defendant accused of an ordinary domestic crime;

Whereas, Mohammed fits the statutory definition of an "unlawful enemy combatant" who engaged in premeditated, politically motivated violence against noncombatant civilian targets;

Whereas, he is not a citizen and was captured outside the United States;

Whereas, Mohammed and his fellow terrorist defendants have made it clear they will attempt to use this highly publicized civilian trial in the U.S. to their own political advantage, to aggrandize themselves as martyrs and spread their jihadist ideology both internationally and domestically;

Whereas, the president risks humiliation for America if this "show trial" results in acquittal, or even in endless defense motions and appeals that drag out for years;

Whereas, veteran federal prosecutors claim the terrorists' defense attorneys will use this trial to discover and make public methods and practices of the CIA and the U.S. military that would severely compromise national security by revealing to America's enemies all of our secrets in fighting this war;

Whereas, Congress can easily stop this dangerous mockery of justice by exercising its constitutional authority to proscribe or limit the kinds of cases federal courts are permitted to hear, an authority it has exercised many times throughout American history:

SIGN THE PETITION We, the undersigned, assert our rights as citizens of the United States in demanding the Congress of the United States use its authority to stop this show trial and any future abuses of American jurisprudence by making a simple declaration: "Federal district courts shall have no jurisdiction over any case involving unlawful enemy combatants, as that term is defined in the United States Code (Title 10, Section 948a)." Constitutional authority is clear: Article III, Section 1, states, "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." Therefore, if this outrageous and dangerous trial goes forward, responsibility for it rests squarely at the feet of the current United States Congress. First / Last:    * Email: * Zipcode:   YES! Please keep me informed about this battle to uphold the Constitution, as well as other breaking news and special offers from WorldNetDaily. Privacy Policy

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