Based on his fundamentalist Christian beliefs, isn’t it more than fair to refer to McVeigh as a “Christian Terrorist” for killing 500 people – mostly children – in Oklahoma City ?

I know Mark Boughton is even-handed. No doubt he and I are in agreement on this.

By the way, we are kind of playing loose in this country with the definition of “war crimes”. Because “war” is an often debated state and because Al Qaeda is a movement and an organization, not a country, we can get into some nebulous territory.

I would submit Mr. Mayor that New Yorkers are pretty tough people, people that like facts and knowledge.

I would also submit that by calling us into a state of war with an entity like Al Qaeda, you are giving legitimacy to their role in the world of international politics, which is something we should absolutely not do. I would also submit that a trial will help our police and justice system further extract facts and truth from the bowels of this heinous crime. Something we need to further prevent the perpetrators colleagues from proceeding with further plans. Police work is not an end to itself, it is part of the justice process.

Regardless of whether the crimes were created as an act of war or as an act created to throw our country into chaos, I want to know all of the facts and our justice system is a strong fulcrum to extract truth from those that would see it fail and falter.

On a side note, I spent a great deal of time in Israel when I was much younger. One of the key things Israelis are very good at is getting and extracting information out of terrorists. We actually have a pretty strong practice in the FBI for doing something very similar (Scott Piro in the FBI was Saddam’s interrogator, the guy is amazing). Again, law enforcement and our system of justice really does work. Military trials and torture is the stuff of banana republics. Especially in Danbury, we have more class than that.

You’re absolutely right about America being made great by the ability for a person to sling mud anonymously on the Web site of a small daily newspaper. Congratulations on exercising that right.

Further, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution says that defendants in all criminal prosecutions are entitled to a speedy and public trial “by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed…” The phrase “jury of his peers” appears nowhere there, nor anywhere else in the Constitution, according to a quick search I just did.

The Constitution is a big reason why, as you pointed out, America is great. Perhaps you should read it before making cynical, moronic arguments about criminal procedure.

Pedro- Our contract was signed with Vio-Alert for all collections on back taxes in the spring of 09′ There really was no “plan”, the city looked at a variety of options that Vio-Alert offers for collection and we opted for the booting program- we had hoped to start in July, but ran into issues about payments and logistics. No consideration was given towards elections.

Sorry if you got booted, but with almost 2 million dollars owed to the City that we probably would never collected, this program as already proven a success.