GOP Rep suggests kidnappings will be result of NYC Terror Trials

The reactions following the announcement that the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists will take place in New York have been wide spread among all parties

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- a conservative independent -- has backed the Obama administration's plan, saying that it was fitting that the 9/11 suspects would be housed just blocks away from the former site of the World Trade Center. Democratic New York Governor David Patterson is less enthusiastic according to the New York Daily News, saying he doesn't believe the suspects should be tried on New York soil. But in Congress, the reaction has been largely split along party lines, with the likes of Democratic Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy saying "I don't think we should run and hide and cower. Let's use our system," Republican Congressman John Shadegg summed up his dislike of the plan this way:

I saw the Mayor of New York said today, "We're tough. We can do it." Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it's your daughter that's kidnapped at school by a terrorist? How are you going to feel when it's some clerk -- some innocent clerk of the court -- whose daughter or son is kidnapped? Or the judge's wife? Or the jailer's little brother or little sister? This is political correctness run amok.