Leave your dagger at the door, &c.

So, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “Christmas bomber,” is being put on trial. According to this report, he “came into the courtroom Tuesday wearing an oversized prison T-shirt and U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds called a brief recess to allow him to change into clothes more appropriate for court, after acknowledging and denying his apparent request to wear a ‘Yemeni belt with a dagger.’”

Such is the Draconian nature of U.S. justice — no dagger.

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