An Impressive statement regarding terrorism (An excellent read!!)

Title: Impressive statement regarding terrorism. As US Memorial Day approaches, it is inspiring to read the words of Judge William Young... Would that other sources/agencies/outlets recognized terrorism for what it is!!

YOUNG: Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.

Jose Manuel Miguel Gonzales, in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flow away, the ice will vanish, the air will become soft and balmy. The annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass.

But you will not be there.

The rivulet will run its soaring course to the sea. The timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots. The glorious valleys in this imperial domain will blossom as the rose.

Still you will not be there.

From every treetop, some wildwood songster will carol his mating song. Butterflies will sport in the sunshine. The gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses and all nature will be glad.

But you will not be there to enjoy it.

Because I command the sheriff of the county to lead you away to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a knotting bough of some sturdy oak and let you hang until dead.

And then Jose Manuel Miguel Gonzales, I further command that such officer retire quickly from your dangling corpse, that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing is left but the bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, blood-thirsty, throat-cutting, murdering S.O.B.

I like this kind of sentencing better. The above sentence
is attributed to judge Roy Bean. Not that the other judge
wasn't eloquent, he was not blunt enough to get Reid's
attention.

This reminds me of judge Jessica Cooper of Michigan, who sentenced Dr. "Jack the Dripper" Kevorkian:

"You announced your intention to commit murder, and you dared the world to stop you. Well sir, consider yourself stopped."

She gave Dr. Death the maximum sentence under the law, 26 years. (A "life" sentence he would be up for parole earlier).

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