Padilla Judge: Brig Time Doesn't Count

AP via SFGate ^ | 3/23/7 | CURT ANDERSON

[Ransomed]

A knee-jerk distrust for government is the best trait our founders tried to pass on to us...your doing fine in your reasoning, in my opinion.

freegards

[4woodenboats]

This is going to be the last thing I read tonight, just so I can have a smile that will last well into sunrise.

Thanks for posting this!

[Lurker]

Any tool they get will be misused and abused by their ilk 50 years down the line.

It's not going to take that long.

L

[piasa]

But would you want this precedent to spread, so that your neighbor's detained child will have to wait for almost 4 years for his case to get a court's input?

If my neighbor's child was a gang member and had been tried and convicted of this I'd wonder why he wasn't hung to begin with, even if the victims were streetscum, too.

1985 : (PADILLA CHARGED & CONVICTED) By the time cops caught up with Padilla again in 1985, he was charged with and convicted of two counts of murder, aggravated battery, armed robbery, and attempted armed robbery. Details of the would-be nuke bomber's murders were not immediately available, but the crimes took place when he was a 15-year-old street gang member in Chicago.-newsmax.com via http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/697957/posts

NOV 1985 - MAY 1988 : He was convicted at 15 as a juvenile of aggravated battery, armed robbery and attempted armed robbery. A law enforcement official said Padilla was in custody there between November 1985 and May 1988. U.S. Nabs 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect, AP

He spent several years in juvenile detention for his role in a gang killing om Chicago. - Washington Post, "Al Muhajir Alleged to Be Scouting Terror Sites U.S. Says Al Qaeda Had Instructed Suspect," By Susan Schmidt and Walter Pincus, Wednesday, June 12, 2002; Page A01

It's fine to distrust the government in the fashion of the founders, so long as you distrust the NLG and ACLU even more.

[piasa]

This is a guy who back around 1988 or so was caught stealing a donut and when caught his response was to punch the guy who caught him in the face. He was sentenced to some time on an assualt charge and jumped bail; took off to Florida where he had a road rage incident and brandished a gun at a motorist, then fired it when the motorist wasn't impressed with his driving or his weapon. He served a little time for that bbefore converting to the wonderful world of islam and changing his name to the name which the press loathes to mention for fear of getting CAIR's lawyers all riled up, Abdullah Al-Mujahir.