Posted on 05/03/2006 12:39:24 PM PDT by BladeLWS
Just flashed on Fox, jury has a verdict, to be read at 4:30PM EST!
Of course, that is what I meant to say. I didn't know we could go so far back into the past to try to make it right!
It's really shocking. I can't imagine what they were thinking.
Exactly. Far too many Americans are both naive about prisons and muddled in their thinking about the necessity of the death penalty in cases like these.
They were thinking that they were COWARDS!!!!
He could just as easily be cheered by the prison population as anything else.
From “Discover the Networks”:
LYNNE STEWART
Their friendship, along with Stewart’s counsel, continued after Rahman was imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. That is where Stewart, a self-proclaimed “radical activist attorney” who supporters argue is no more than a kindly 62-year-old grandmother, crossed the line into criminality. Throughout 2000, FBI agents, working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), secretly videotaped Stewart’s legal visits with Rahman and wiretapped telephone conversations between the two. Due to federal authorities’ concerns over Rahman’s attempts to issue fatwahs and direct further the Islamic Group’s activities from prison, Stewart had to agree to a Special Administrative Measure (SAM) in order to gain access to him. The SAM meant that Stewart could only talk to Rahman about legal matters and barred her from conveying messages from the Sheikh to anyone in the outside world, including his family, friends and the media. The SAM did, however, allow an Arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, to accompany Stewart on her visits with the Sheikh.
It was through Yousry that Rahman, according to a 19-page indictment issued by federal agents, delivered messages in Arabic to a Staten Island-based postal worker named Ahmed Abdel Sattar. While Yousry was a go-between for Rahman and Sattar, Sattar in turn facilitated communication between Rahman and Islamic Group representatives in the Middle East. Sattar, through faxes and telephone conversations, informed Islamic Group members abroad of the Sheikh’s directives and desires; they in turn carried them out.
Despite the Sheikh’s incarceration, the Islamic Group still considers him its sole spiritual leader, a fact made brutally clear in 1997 when six assassins shot and stabbed 58 tourists and four Egyptians to death in Luxor, Egypt. Members of the Islamic Group later claimed responsibility for this murderous rampage, saying it was done to force authorities to release Rahman from prison in the United States. Not to be outdone, Osama bin Laden and a few of his fellow Al-Qaeda operatives appeared on Al-Jazeera television in September 2000 vowing to wage a jihad to end Rahman’s incarceration (one of the men extolled viewers to “avenge your Sheikh” and “go to the spilling of blood”). The suicide bombing of the American navy destroyer U.S.S. Cole occurred just one month after this broadcast. That attack, which took place in Yemen and killed over 17 U.S. sailors, was explained by Sattar’s Mid-east contacts as a warning to the U.S. government to free Rahman.
The messenger role played by both Yousry and Sattar made the two irreplaceable cogs in the Islamic Group’s militant mission. But without Stewart, correspondence with the Sheikh would have been nonexistent. Stewart not only allowed Yousry to communicate privately with the Sheikh in Arabic, she encouraged and actively aided the two men’s efforts to conduct IG business behind bars. An F.B.I. affidavit prepared by agent Kimberley Whittle detailed the cunning measures Stewart resorted to during her prison visits in order to protect Rahman and assist the Islamic Group’s homicidal agenda. According to the affidavit, Stewart “made random comments out loud for the [prison] guards to hear in order to conceal the real conversation” between Rahman and Yousry. During one such exchange, Stewart—all the while pretending to take notes in her legal pad—misled nearby guards by loudly inserting the nonsensical phrase, “Yes, the um…I am talking to you about…him going out on a, uh, chocolate eh…heart attack here” into a discussion between Rahman and Yousry. A wiretap captured Stewart, Rahman and Yousry joking afterwards about Stewart’s deception, with the aging Leftist lawyer saying she could “get an award for it,” and the Sheikh adding, “as long as the government is using secret evidence we will use secret doves.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=861
This is disgusting. Shame on that jury. They are scum.
Life in prison is a far worse punishment. Execution would have made him a martyr. It's what he wanted, so I say we deny his request.
Banging my head on table in disgust. We know from previous experience he is about as much a threat alive in prison as anywhere. Remember the blind Sheik? Yea that's just great. If they put him in the general population in prison a sizable portion will protect him and see him as a leader. Islam is prospering behind those walls. For the security of the nation this man needs to be alone as in no outside contact other than guards. Make what he saw in TV today be the world as he remembers it for the rest of his life then. Let his knowledge of the news outside of the prison walls never be acquired. Do this and completely isolate him from any human contact and he'll be jello in about 10 years. Let him go mad.
To all those who go, "Oh, but we'd make him a martyr. Wahhh!" So? Our legal system should not be acknowledging his beliefs in the first place. It matters not if he believes that the moon god will give him a special place in heaven. What matters is our laws and customs. By giving him "mercy" and a pass from our laws, we are acknowledging the legitimacy of his beliefs. It's disgusting, and that jury is pure, unadulterated scum.
a dark day in the united states.
but he won't be, he'll be just fine in the prison in Colorado.
I for one am glad that he has to sit in that jail day in and day out...worse punishment you could give a person.
Agreed. An extremely dark day. More proof that our country is going downhill fast.
Not giving him the death penalty will be interpreted as a sign of weakness by us. Watch: when an American is held hostage, the Islamofascists will demand the release of this clown or they will behead the hostage.
Or at least reveal your DU handles.
He won't be in the general population. He will be in isolation with Moslem religious services piped in. He has called us wusses and he is right. This is what happens when you put a terrorist before the average criminal trial jury. They thought he had had a "bad childhood".
WTF?? That sounds like a bad parody of DUmmie babble.
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