SHOW TRIALS

All the world loves a good show trial. They're like a mash-up of Judge Judy and Blazing Saddles. Hilarious courtroom antics! Now, THAT'S entertainment!
The one I liked best was when the Soviet Union put a CIA U-2 (no, not that U-2) pilot named Francis Gary Powers on trial after they shot his spying ass out the sky in 1960 or so. It was real funny. See, the U.S. thought they'd just say that Powers wasn't spying, he was innocently checking up on Russian weather, just to see if they had any. They figured Powers had blown himself up before he crashed, or that he had at least had the courtesy or patriotism to cyanide himself. But, no, the plane was in great shape, and Powers lived to have his little show trial. It was real theater in Moscow, and real theatre in London.
Now the stage is being set for a new round of show trials in New York, New York. They'll be off-Broadway, but not far off ground zero. The only questions are: Who will have the starring role? Who will get center stage? Will the defense attorney up-stage the federal prosecutor? Will the terrorists steal the scene? If the judge accepts a supporting role, whom will he support?
We'll laugh, we'll cry! We'll have a great time, just witnessing history left and right! We won't want it to end, and it most assuredly never will.
The sequel is already being written. Part Two will be "The Appeal". The story-line goes like this: The terrorists/defendants didn't get a fair trial. They were not tried by a jury of their peers, as no Jihadists were even in the jury pool, at least as far as we knew. And besides, the President and the Attorney General had already found them guilty before the trial even started, and assured everyone that the verdict really didn't matter anyway, because the defendants would never get out of prison no matter what.
So what is the real purpose of having such a trial? To SHOW the world that we are a nation of laws. That's the ticket!