Posted on 05/05/2006 4:24:36 AM PDT by mathprof
HE MAY live to regret that he was not sentenced to death. Zacarias Moussaoui, 37, was told yesterday that he must spend the rest of his days at the “supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, the bleakest and most secure of all American jails.
There, he will be kept in an 8ft (2.5m) by 5ft (1.5m) cell, 23 hours a day. He will have no chance to mix with other inmates and only fleeting contact with staff.
His desk, bed and stool will be made of concrete, his mirror of steel. A tiny slit in the wall will be his only source of natural light. If he is allowed a television it will be black and white, showing only educational and religious programmes. His only comfort may be a copy of the Koran.
The prison, known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies”, was built in 1994 at a cost of $60 million. It has 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors, motion detectors, pressure pads and gun towers.
ADX Florence is already home to Moussaoui’s friend, the British “shoe bomber”, Richard Reid.
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and Ramzi Yousef, jailed for conspiracy after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre, are also there. But Moussaoui can forget about chatting with fellow terrorists.
He is expected to be kept in isolation, eating meals in his cell and spending his recreation hour in the concrete courtyard alone.
A taste of life ahead was offered by James Aiken, a former prison warden called as a defence witness during his trial. “We are not preparing him for a return to society. We are not even preparing him for a return to the general population. The mission here is incapacitation.
“Time takes a toll on all of us, something he doesn’t even know yet. I have seen them rot. They rot.”
Black and white TV! Oh, the inhumanity!
I don't recall who the source was, but it was said on FNC last night, and a graphic description of the "joint" was provided.
This country is turning into a bunch of Tofu eatin', Charrdonay swillin', tree huggin' feel your pain, pansies!
Good for you, C! I'm proud of you too!
Yes I think it would be very different. IMO, politically and culturally, even after so many years of Canadian Liberals and socialist "leadership", Canada is nothing like Spain.
I am trying so hard not to go there, but I fear you may be right particularly if, in addition to smart and stupid, you bring good and evil in to the equation.
The Founders were explicit, consistent and loud about our republic requiring good smart people.
Heres what weve got
-- Open Borders
-- Open Morals
-- Millions of clueless, selfish dumbassess
-- Millions of determined lovers of government
-- Millions of determined jihadis.
The above reads like the contents of the book How to Eradicate a Nation. The Constitution and Bill of Rights (may peace be upon them) seem hardly to have a chance.
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Okay, enough of that dark stuff. Heres a lighter recipe:
-- Pray.
-- Make Babies.
-- Buy guns and books and bibles and guns and books for those babies.
-- Use those guns and books and bibles and guns and books.
-- Use those books and guns and bibles some more.
-- Pray some more.
-- Make some more babies.
-- Repeat as needed. (Note: Thats expected to be a while.)
We had baseball sized hail a couple of weeks ago in Indianapolis....
It's almost as foolish to overrate jihadists as it is to underrate them.
Wise words.
this is an excellent point... something many Americans take for granted...
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