Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’ (Richard Reid sues to resume jihad from prison. Obama admin caves in)

wsj.com ^ | July 29, 2009 | DEBRA BURLINGAME

[Free ThinkerNY]

Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that “more mistakes would occur” if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues today,” he predicted, “then I guarantee you, they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.”

On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver filed notice in federal court that the Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which applied to that prisoner—Richard C. Reid, a.k.a. the “Shoe Bomber”—were being allowed to expire. SAMs are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when “there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury” to others.

Reid was arrested in 2001 for attempting to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with 197 passengers and crew on board. Why had Attorney General Eric Holder decided not to renew his security measures, kept in place since 2002?

According to court documents filed in a 2007 civil lawsuit against the government, Reid claimed that SAMs violated his First Amendment right of free speech and free exercise of religion. In a hand-written complaint, he asserted that he was being illegally prevented from performing daily “group prayers in a manner prescribed by my religion.” Yet the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence reads like a Who’s Who of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam;

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

They ought to shove a shoe bomb in his mouth and detonate the damn thing.

I’m sick of this PC crap.

[originalbuckeye]

God bless Debra Burlingame. She is the sister of the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. If not for her efforts the Left-wing Jersey Girls would have taken all the air after 9/11. And they were not pro-Bush. Debra is dogged in her determination to hold to account those who would do us harm. Eric Holder is yet another metrosexual Obama appointee who will eventuate more terrorist attacks on our soil. God save us from these clowns who willfully allow harm to be planned and possibly carried out against our country. By that I mean the Obama Admin and the terrorists.

[jessduntno]

Let’s make him the Shoe Bomb Detector Czar...he has experience and everything...kind of like Tim Geithner in charge of Taxes...

[pissant]

The dirty bastard quisling Obama needs to be impeached.

[Bean Counter]

Just put him in Gen Pop...plenty of violent “patriots” in Federal Prison...

[LeoWindhorse]

forget imprisonment

they should all be taken out and shot

seriously

[Western Phil]

Yet the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence reads like a Who’s Who of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam;

Watch Obama release the whole bunch.

[jimbo123]

[Pikachu_Dad]

It seems that we get one piece of outrageously bad news every day out of this administration. VERY UPSETTING.

[Republic]

Isn't this the muslim FREAK who has made it impossible for ALL OF US TO FLY commercially without first taking off our shoes? Isn't the SHOE BOMBER of this aricle the jerk who forced this upon our entire nation and the airline industry as a safety measure?

I am so GLAD this idiot was caught in the act and I am FURIOUS at the people uhbama has placed in charge and as for eric holder-THEY DO NOT COME ANY LOWER-which is why bill clinton used him so much!

[gitmo]

Wrong end, Ghost.

[Ouderkirk]

seriously,

They should have been shot before they ever got there.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

They ought to shove a shoe bomb in his mouth and detonate the damn thing.

I’m sick of this PC crap.
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I can think of another well-suited orifice.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

[livius]

Meanwhile, in order to appease political constituencies both here and abroad, the Obama administration is moving full steam ahead, operating on the false premise that giving more civil liberties to religious fanatics bent on destroying Western civilization will make a difference in the Muslim world

With Obama, it's all about anything other than his adopted country (the US, that is). Actually, it's all about him, and this is just another part of the image that he wants to broadcast to his followers abroad.

[BwanaNdege]

Perhaps Richard Reid needs to be removed from prison and sentenced to spend his nights in jail and his days chained to a chair at the end of the airport security station. You know, the area where we all are trying to put our shoes back on.

Of course, some passengers might be tempted to give him the traditional Muslim insult of throwing their shoes at him. The flip-flop and earth shoe crown might not do much damage, but the callused hands & steel-toed boots construction worker crowd might be a different story.

(did someone just mutter something about the punishment fitting the crime...)

[dervish]

take no prisoners

[Republic]

Yeah-or sit him so that only his nose sticks out hole just above the track the shoes in the buckets pass by, forcing him to breath in shoes (used shoes) all day long as penance before he returns to jail at night.

[Malsua]

This man made a choice to attempt to blow up an airplane.

Society has determined that he never be let among the rest of us again. That is our choice. He made his choice to surrender all rights. He can’t undo this thing. It is done. He needs to live with his choice and perhaps serve as an example to others.