Moussaoui Trail a Farce

I have not been following the Zacarias Moussaoui trial very closely, but can someone please tell me the relevance of opening up the wounds of 9/11 all over again?  It almost seems as if they are going overboard, as if the government can take out the entire fury of this event in this trial.  It is a big farce to me, if you look at the basic premise of the government’s case.  Essentially they are saying if Moussaoui had confessed to the conspiracy prior to 9/11, that the proper agencies would have been able to thwart the hijackers and prevent the terrorist attacks.  Quite frankly, I don’t buy that theory for one minute.

In reality, if someone, anyone, was arrested before 9/11 and admitted to being part of a major conspiracy to hijack multiple airplanes and fly them into buildings as flying projectiles, they would have been on there way to a psychiatric facility for observation.  If the officer, agent, or marshal leading the investigation actually thought there was some credibility to the story that his or her supervisors would have laughed the subordinate off the job.  If by chance it made it out of the local office, the information would have died in the regional office.  Even if it made it to the say the FBI in Washington, they would have had to coordinate the search for hijackers with the CIA, INS and various other agencies and since they still cannot effectively communicate today, four and half years later, then why does the prosecution think that these agencies would have had there act together to do this before 9/11.

I don’t believe that the putting Rudy Giuliani on the stand and talking about 9/11, or putting the father of a passenger on one of the planes, or play the black box recordings from Flight 93 or playing the 911 calls from the World Trade Center have any value in determining if Moussaoui is guilty or innocent, or if guilty if he deserves the death penalty.  The latter issue is split by a persons feeling on capital punishment in general and the former issue has no relevance to the aftermath of 9/11.   All that is happening is we as a country, or maybe just as we New Yorkers are being forced to relive this tragedy and are not allowed to move on, since every news station keeps showing the images.  It is like pouring lemon juice on an open wound.

Either Moussaoui is guilty of being the 20th hijacker or he is not.  If he was the 20th hijacker, or part of another conspiracy with a different goal then he is guilty.  If he is eligible for the death penalty then he should be to death like an old dog.  If he is not eligible then he should rot in jail for the rest of life, but not at the expense of the American taxpayer.  Either way, the death and destruction of 9/11 is irrelevant to the current proceedings and just makes our legal system look more like a joke every day.