http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/clubbing_seals_HL7IoVVGqlZpvWCXQRWcDJ

Money Quote:

“What is especially ironic, to say nothing of infuriating, about the SEALs’ inquisition is that it underscores the utter lack of curiosity exhibited by the Pentagon in the matter of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army shrink and Islamist.”

And also today:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/025023.php

In reference to those SEIU thugs working for Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan; who assaulted, beat, and concussed Kenneth Gladney, cursing him with the one forbidden word in American political discourse, for committing the sin of being Black and not supporting Obama. After trying to avoid any prosecution at all, St. Louis Democratic prosecutors finally filed misdemeanor ordinance violation charges, I believe to avoid filing of Civil Rights charges against them under 42 USC.

“UPDATE: It occurs to me that if these union thugs had been Navy SEALS apprehending a terrorist mass murderer of Americans, rather than agents of the Democratic Party trying to suppress expression of a political view with which the Democratic Party disagrees, they would have been treated far more harshly. Why do you think that is?”

The question was answered immediately afterwards:

“FURTHER UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds offers a simple answer: “Because the SEIU thugs are advancing the goals of people in power?”

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA SEIU marschiert mit mutig-festem Schritt.

Subotai Bahadur

Us New Yorkers, we shut the city down twice a day.

Seriously, the vast majority of New Yorkers think Obama is just Aces.

Seriously.

I have watched a truly totalitarian, collectivist cloud creep over the City these last 20 years or so, and have seen New Yorker become inured to it. It is not the same place it was many years ago.

What the rest of the nation needs to do is go on national strike and shut places like New York down.

The other is moral courage. That’s the ability to take a risk to reputation, livelihood, and freedom. These SEALS are showing that they have both.

By this act they rebut the Administration’s decision on KSM’s venue. They are saying, don’t American citizens and servicemen deserve the same legal protections as KSM? This puts security secrets at the same risk of revelation, legally.

Now, how exactly did that happen? Was it simply a matter of inattention and incompetence, or was there perhaps something more going on? Shouldn’t the Iraqi authorities–so concerned about our misconduct at Abu Ghraib–at least look at the person(s) responsible for far more Iraqi (not to mention American) deaths and suffering?

Nah, I guess not. It’s probably impolite even to suggest it.

If, as some here suggest, the subject really is, once again, all about our treatment of detainees, going back to the horrendous abuses inflicted at Abu Ghraib, perhaps it would be instructional to put that into some kind of perspective as well.

Oh heck, let me just say it, unnuanced and loud, that we have less cause to be embarrassed than proud. Just so: LET ME BEGIN WITH A simple sentence that, even as I write it, appears less than Swiftian in the modesty of its proposal: “Prison conditions at Abu Ghraib have improved markedly and dramatically since the arrival of Coalition troops in Baghdad.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000%5C000%5C005%5C995phqjw.asp

However, forget the “striking model-thin blonde” bimbo wife. I’m interested in the dude with the Arab name (Tareq Salahi), and whether next time he’ll have a dynamite belt strapped on under his tux. Although given the First Couple and their combined guest list, and their mutual denial that there is any such thing as terrorism or the need to have a war against it, it would be really good karma to have them all meet their makers because of the tender attentions of an Islamic jihadist, with lots of little bitty pieces of multi-ethnic American-grown hamburger.

Because there were no Navy SEALs at the White House doors to make sure uninvited guests with Arab names couldn’t crash the party.

So, since they don’t give a flying fig for you or yours, since they are obviously going for the nomenklatura high-life brass ring (just look –they have a full dress ball every other weekend and think nothing of letting their general Secretary wander areound with an issue of fricken GQ under his arm), then show ‘em who’s boss and shut the city down until they back off this mad in-your-face subjugation/demoralization ploy.

Learning that Holder’s law firm is what has been sandbagging the tribunals is such a yawning conflict of interest –it’s just infuriating how little these people care about the warp and weave of the rule of law and the power of tradition.

The three commandos are assigned to SEAL Team Ten, based at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek.

The Commander lost Team Four.