Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doesn’t particularly like being a prisoner in Guantanamo.  Call it Gitmo if you wish.  For about eight years, he had tons of supporters that didn’t want him in Gitmo either.  Problem was, once Bush was out of office and Obama said he’d close it down, everyone forgot all about Gitmo.  Once forgotten because Obama said it was closed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is still there.  Now, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doesn’t get to stay there without a plan.  So, occasionally, due to a rather bizarre set of legal shenanigans designed only to shut up pacifists, he has to plead his case to stay at Gitmo.  He does this quite well.  Not wishing to waste all his retirement money on legal fees, he makes this plea himself.  This year’s plea was different in that instead of attacking Bush, he’s had to re-focus on Obama.  Everyone used to love to pick on Bush, so his message got lost in the chorus.  I thought his message this year was particularly unique.  And, the responses to it even moreso.  I’m not going to do Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s bidding and repeat his entire message here.  I’m just going to focus on a couple of points that I think are relevant to issues that affect US citizens.

“We spent three years moving around the black sites in the ‘dark ages’ of Bush, then we were transferred to the island of oppression, torture and terror, Guantanamo,” they write. “Then, the lying Barack, the new American president was elected, and we entered the black ages of Barack.“

We went from the “dark ages” of Bush to “the black ages”.  OK, anyone wanna guess why he thinks he’s in “the black ages”?  Huh?  Wanna?  Clearly, in order to stay where Obama said he could not, he’s apparently flung out the race card.  This is obvious race baiting.  The response has been under-whelming.

Jimmy Carter immediately chimed in: “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is black. … Racism still exists, and I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many Muslims, not just in Gitmo but around the country, that African Americans are not qualified to lead this country,” Carter said during an interview with NBC News anchor Brian Williams.

Hank Johnson went even further, “In an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said Tuesday that Muslims will be putting on “white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside” if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Mohammed, are not rebuked. Mohammed must be disciplined as an example“.

Maureen Dowd immediately recognized that what Mohemmed stated had to be racially motivated since Mohammed was not a Democrat.  Belonging to an organization that has discriminated against others for a thousand years certainly didn’t help Mohammed’s case with Dowd.  She immediately points out Mohammed has to be a racist since Jim Clyburn didn’t say he wasn’t.

Once Hank, Jimmy, and Jim piled on Mohammed, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS all jumped in on the chorus.  ABC didn’t realize it was a story for a couple of days after.  Once they realized what was going on, they denied it was ever a story in the first place and left it up to the internets.

But, that was just the beginning of Mohammed’s problems.  He also blurted out the unthinkable, he also said Obama lied.

At that point, of course, The Congressional Black Caucus introduced a resolution telling the world that it is not nice to call the President a liar and therefore should apologize repeatedly on national television.  A few made the argument that if you didn’t support it, you had to be racist.  Congress passed it.

No one asked why the prisoner that would not be held indefinitely at the place that was supposed to be closed immediately was even writing a letter to the military that was not supposed to be trying him in the first place.

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