Posted on 02/06/2006 9:42:19 AM PST by yoe
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb 6 (Reuters) - Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was ejected from a federal courtroom on Monday on the first day of jury selection after he criticized his lawyers and called the sentencing trial a "circus."
"I am al Qaeda, they do not represent me," said Moussaoui, dressed in a green jumpsuit with "Prisoner" written on the back. "They are Americans."
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered Moussaoui, 37, to be escorted out of the courtroom just minutes after she began discussing the first stage of jury selection in the trial that will determine if he is executed in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks on America.
Moussaoui declared: "This trial is a circus" before meekly putting his hands on the back of his head and allowing marshals to take him out.
Moussaoui -- the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 hijacked airline attacks that killed about 3,000 people -- pleaded guilty last April to all six counts against him. A jury will now decide if he gets the death penalty or life in prison.
Please call your Senators and Congressmen now, demand this deplorable person be given the same sentence as Richard Reid. How I wish Judge William Young were in that court today!
Sounds like he pleaded guilty.
So, if this schmo says the "trial is a circus," send him to the lion house at the National Zoo. I think the SOB might find that, at least, entertaining; and he'd get some great exercise.
Yea .. but it won't stop the liberals from defending him
"This trial is a circus"
Call me when they get to the part where they bring in the lions...
Tough call here. If we sentence him to death, which he deserves, we make a martyr out of him to his al-Qaeda brethren.
Mr. Moussaoui needs to be publicly thanked for giving us the names of all Al Queda operatives in the US and their where abouts. We will then publicly announce where and when he will be released.
Put him in a cell with video hook up and let him hear his sentence.
Same in Iraq. Keep the murderers out of the courtroom.
I wonder if Moussaoui has been watching the Saddam trial ..?? If so - somebody needs to turn it off so he cannot get ideas on how to disrupt the court.
And .. if the guy won't be quiet - put him in a separate room and force him to watch via closed circuit TV.
I'm tired of trying to make nice with these TERRORISTS. If an American citizen acted that way - they would be slapped with a fine - and put in restraints! I'm sick of our babying these murderers.
So will be the guys you meet in the showers in prison, fella.
Heh, heh, heh...
Say "Hi" for us - oh... wait - you won't be able to, will you.
LOL!!!
He already plead guilty. This is the sentencing.
U.S. District Court Judge William Young made the following statement in sentencing "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and deserves to be remembered far longer than he predicts. I commend it to you and to anyone you might wish to forward it to.
January 30, 2003 United States vs. Reid. Judge Young: Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.
On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutive with the other. That's 80 years.
On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 for the aggregate fine of $2 million.
The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.
The Court imposes upon you the $800 special assessment.
The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.
This is the sentence that is provided for by our statues. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence. Let me explain this to you.
We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is all too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone with the utmost respect.
Here in this court , where we deal with individuals as individuals, and care for individuals as individuals, as human beings we reach out for justice, you are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature. Whether it is the officers of government who do it or your attorney who does it, or that happens to be your view, you are a terrorist.
And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not treat with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.
So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You're no warrior. I know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders.
In a very real sense Trooper Santigo had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and where the TV crews were and he said you're no big deal. You're no big deal.
What your counsel, what your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today? I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing. And I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you. But as I search this entire record it comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me you hate the one thing that is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose.
Here, in this society, the very winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely.
It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed appeals, will go on in their, their representation of you before other judges. We are about it. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden, pay any price, to preserve our freedoms.
Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. Day after tomorrow it will be forgotten. But this, however, will long endure. Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice,individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done.
The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged, and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.
See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. You know it always will. Custody Mr. Officer. Stand him down.
How much of this Judge's comments did you hear on our TV sets? Please pass this around. Everyone needs to hear what the judge had to say.
Moussaoui has lived off the largess of the American taxpayer long enough - sentence the terrorist to hard labor for the next 100 years and rid our court system of this vermin once and for all. CALL YOUR ELECTED!!!
The Libs will still defend him
This is getting ridiculous, and is a HUGE waste of our taxpayer money. Let's hope he commits suicide or dies in a prison riot. I mean it.
If the 'rats had their way every single GITMO terrorist would be in our Courts tying the system in knots.
Lots of muslim sympathizers in prison.
Send him on to Mr. Wu..
Send him on to Mr. Wu..
Not if we put him up against a firing squad with ammunition dipped in pig's blood.
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