Fly Swatter Award this Week goes to . . .

Lindsey Graham!

What?

No Miranda Rights reading?

Suspend the Constitution?

Come on, man . . . you’re leading us down a rough, rocky trail that leads to the only way that this guy can ever be set free!

You’re saying that our constitution can’t handle things like Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?  You’re saying we need two constitutions (or more) to handle “really serious” problems?  

If we try this guy and convict him, and with all the evidence that is available he HAS to be convicted, but even THEN, if the trial is not according to American law, he could someday be ordered released because his trial was not done legally.  And in that case it would not take him two days to be plucked from this country to another where be would be hailed as a hero.

Did he use a Weapon of Mass Destruction?  Well, that same week there were two horrendous events: the explosion of a fertilizer plant inside of a small-town in Texas, and the two bombs set off at the Boston Marathon.  Bad as they both were though, they STILL killed fewer people than the killer in Newtown with HIS Weapons of Mass Destruction.  

And  now since the U.S. Senate has just decided that THOSE Weapons of Mass Destruction, those military-style assault weapons capable of delivering “Covering Fire” don’t even require background checks, and they clearly then are not Weapons of Mass Destruction, maybe the senate will decide to require background checks of people who buy pressure cookers, or of owners of fertilizer plants.  Of course we could check first and find out how many people are killed each year by pressure cookers or fertilizer plants, or guns.  Yeah, then the senate would be better able to make a rational decision.  Some people don't do well when they're under pressure.