Posted on 05/05/2006 4:24:36 AM PDT by mathprof
Need an antidote to the Moussaoui verdict? Go out this weekend to see "United 93."
Zacarias Moussaoui is lucky the jurors at his sentencing trial weren't allowed to see the movie "United 93" the day before reaching a verdict. If they had, rather than handing him life in prison, it is likely that one or more of the jurors would have come out of the box to deliver the death sentence himself -- just as the four doomed men on Flight 93 charged their hijackers to stop its fanatic pilots from flying the airliner into another American building.
Some will say the Moussaoui life sentence merely proves that we in the U.S. are beyond biblical justice, beyond an eye for an eye, even if our Islamic enemies do not bother to claim any grievance larger than resentment to justify the most startling slaughter of innocents all over the world. This argument -- that the refusal to impose the death penalty on Moussaoui shows "we are not like them" -- might have been entertainable before September 11. It may no longer be. [snip]
Our sense of normalcy may not be in our best interest.
As an example, one thought that occurred in the hour after seeing "United 93" had to do with the recent debate in the U.S. over the warrantless wiretapping of suspected phone calls between terrorists. In that hour, this "debate" seemed quite otherworldly. It is unlikely that in the first six months after September 11 Sen. Arlen Specter would ever have thought to intone that the wiretapping program was "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But he does now. Times change.
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Good thing too.
Maybe we can get a guard with terminal cancer (nothing to lose) assigned to him...
Initially I was upset about no death penalty... but then I realized he would be in jail with some d*mn nasty people who probably don't like to hear "death to America".
I think when they get a hold of him, he will be sodomized, beat, tortured, and hopefully left to live to endure this day after day after day.
Never thought I would wish that on someone... but I do to this b*st*ard!
I'm for the death penalty, but I think this sentence might be a greater "hell" than being put to sleep peacefully. I can't imagine a life like this. I've toured 3 active Federal prisons and Alcatraz. Just those tours were enough confinement for me!
The next Democrat President will probably pardon him to appease the muslims and he also holds many of the same views that the Democrats hold.
I imagine the US has used back channels to explain to the French that any such attempt will be met with severe response.
Ah, I see. So it's all Bush's fault. [yawn]
"Every Democrat who runs for President for the next 50 years will be his Liberator-in-Waiting, in the spirit of international cooperation and respect for the world community, of course."
Hyperbole is fun, but of course there's no way a U.S. president would ever let this guy out or hand him over to France.
Somehow, I have a feeling that something will happen during one of those hour blocks eventually. And the guards will just happen to be looking the other way when it does happen. Gotta love prison justice!
According to my "in family expert" on prisoners, my brother-in-law, who spent 23 years in prison, there are lots of patriotic cons. One of them will kill him - That's my prediction................Where this guy is going there is no prisoner on prisoner contact.
A decision was made in December 2001 NOT to have ZM examined by a military tribunal and shot.
This despite the fact that, since 9:03 AM on 9/11/01, it was crystal clear that ZM was an enemy soldier making war on the United States, captured out of uniform and behind our lines, making him ineligible for Geneva Convention protection.
In fact, per ex parte Quirin (1942), the military tribunal was not even required. He could have been shot by simple executive order.
If it's NOT Bush's fault that this civil trial farce was allowed to proceed, with its perfectly forseeable outcome, whose fault do you think it is?
What an embarrassment these jurors are, our face to the world, and typical of US society today.
Thank god for the Americans of United 93, who showed there are still some ordinary Americans with guts.
Watched O'Riley last night, he had a former inmate of the prison where Moussaoui will be sent to serve his time.
The gentleman says Moussaoui will never be in contact with the other inmates, my heart just fell to the floor.
I was hoping some of the other inmates would be able to get to him, and do the job our justice system failed to do.
Our legal system is rapidly becoming as Europe, weak.
Maybe if the trial could have been transferred to Texas instead of VA., the sentence would have been correctly done.
Without an audience, and kept isolated long enough, he will find novel uses for his bedsheets...One can hope.
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In retrospect you are remarkably prescient.
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What would YOU do if you did know?
Well put!
so many people here seem to think he's going to a "normal" prison. Florance Colorado ain't no club fed.
I believe he get 3 showers a week not 1.
There was a caller on a local talk show yesterday, who was an ex-guard there, he said large number of prisoners there end up going insane.
[yawn] ... Hmmm? I'm sorry, I must have dozed off at yet another in a long series of "It's all Bush's fault" ramblings. My sincere ...zz [!]... apologies.
Um, no. He will live out his days in solitary confinement. See post #14 for a good description.
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