Quote from NeoRio1:
Ron Paul and others on the libertarian side of the right have said countless times that 9/11 and other instances of terrorism have been caused by US "grievances". With significant branches in their own party supporting these ideas I doubt the right is fearful of airing these grievances.
Quote from Mnphats:
What possible grievance could there be to justify flying a plane into a building?
Quote from Mnphats:
What possible grievance could there be to justify flying a plane into a building?
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
Yes, there would be a backlash by those who don't believe in the American justice system and prefer vigilante justice...you know, a lynch mob without a trial to impede them...
Quote from drjekyllus:
You mean sort of like the President of the United States telling the people not to worry because they will be found guilty. Shouldn't someone tell the "Constitutional Scholar" that guilt is decided by the Judicial Branch not the Executive.
Quote from TGregg:
The liberals must be dancing in the streets.
NEW YORK â The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."
The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_us/us_sept11_trial_defendants