Posted on 04/14/2006 5:36:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
...Why is it so important to the prosecution to go to such lengths to prove that Moussaoui deserves to be executed? Damage is done by this undertaking, because if the government fails, then the aroma of the trial will waft toward an ambiguity concerning the entire business. If Moussaoui "prevails" in the Virginia trial — if execution is not ordered by the jury — loose-minded analysts will arrive at the conclusion that he was finally not guilty of atrocious deeds, although he has admitted that he'd happily have been a member of the suicide team if he hadn't been detained by the FBI.
And then adding to the confusion, the public is slowly alerted to the generic question of capital punishment. The practice survives in many states, as also in the federal system. But a long, hideously detailed trial designed to do just one thing — to raise the sentence from a lifetime in prison to capital punishment — has the effect of elevating the one remedy to a distinctiveness which believers in capital punishment reject. If the public holds that execution is appropriate for a murderer, then the public should be spared a judicial flight plan that makes it all sound as though execution depended on the number of screams recorded from people killed by the hijackers. To put this trial in Virginia on a level with Nuremberg-style offensiveness risks mitigating the horror in which Moussaoui was involved...
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The guy's utterly inconsequential. Killing him for 9/11 makes him seem more important than he is. He may be evil, but he's incompetent, stupid and a total minor hack who got himself fired from Al Qaeda because he couldn't make it as a terrorist.
How about forcing him to listen to a loop of the best of Barbra Streisand for the next sixty years? Not only is she marginally Jewish, but her music is banned as a form of torture by sixteen international war crimes conventions.
This is the exact line of thinking that these evil beings desire for us to fall into. Lack of conviction and failure to implement the ultimate punishment is perceived as societal weakness. Stand firm in support of our American justice system. For you see, this will be the first time that it simply does not matter what this evil being wants. He does not get to decide. We the people get to decide, and each one of us will have a hand in his execution. Our laws have already established death as a punishment for these crimes. And so it should be.
<< He may be evil, but he's incompetent, stupid and a total minor hack who got himself fired from Al Qaeda because he couldn't make it as a terrorist. >>
Sounds just like another common-garden Al Gore or a John Kerry.
And judicially killing this particular dangerous dullard will but inflate his ego and give his as-evil ilk another rallying point.
Let him rot and die in prison.
I disagree with those who say executing Moussaoui will make him a martyr. He'll be bigger inspiration to al Qaida terrorists if he's a living symbol of resistance in prison. Terrorists can take hostages and demand that Moussaoui be released from prison.
Actually, I think if the US wanted to really hurt Al Qaeda, they'd release Moussaoui, because he's just that incompetent he'll probably detonate a dirty bomb in downtown Mecca by mistake.
No, don't leave him alive as a potentially exchangable hostage.
Wouldn't it be a nice touch for his guards on death row (assuming he gets the death penalty) to whisper into his cell that they're going to fix it so his body will be defiled with pork?
You know who I want to see go!!! That Richard Reid Shoe Bomber Guy!
Do you know how many hours normal, law abiding citizens spend each day removing their shoes and trying to get them back on while they run to catch an airplane?
Do you have any idea how many flights have been missed - the cost to society - the trouble this has caused....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
That man - I would flip the switch myself!
/soapbox
An earlier article stated that he would be kept in a maximum security Federal prison in a segregated cell. For his own safety, he would have no interaction with other prisoners. I take that to mean he would spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement.
What Moussaoui wants is to live a very long time so he can spend the rest of his days being a pain in the ass and making a mockery of our criminal justice system (that is not hard to do anyway). But he does want the death penalty imposed, for now.
All of his antics in the court room now are designed to make sure he does get the death penalty, to lay the groundwork for all of his future appeals, and to generate sympathy among the ANSWER crowd, the Hollywood left, the Ward Churchill academe and the far left judges that thoroughly infest the federal courts at the appellate level.
A death sentence actually works very well for him now. First, it'll make sure he'll be placed in solitary confinement on death row, protected from other inmates. Second, it mobilizes the moonbat brigades into marching in the streets with their "Free Mumia AND Moussaoui" signs and gets the media to fawn over them while they hang out with Susan Sarandon and Mike Farrell. And last, he and al Qaeda know that even under the best circumstances it'll take years and years for the feds to actually get around to strapping him to the gurney. That's years and years for armies of Ramsey Clark-type attorneys, heavily funded by the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia and George Soros, to clog up the system with endless appeals and eventually find the right leftist judge who will toss the entire conviction and set Moussaoui free.
And that will be the public relations coup that al Qaeda really wants. And it goes without saying that the media will be ecstatic. They can point to this and gloat, "He sat there and bragged about helping to kill all those people on 9/11, and the Americans still couldn't put him to death, or even jail him!"
Wear slip-on shoes to the airport. ~:D
<< .... if the US wanted to really hurt Al Qaeda, they'd release Moussaoui, because he's just that incompetent he'll probably detonate a dirty bomb in downtown Mecca by mistake. >>
Given its handling during the past 27 post-Jimmy "Teheran" Cartah years, of every one of the terroristic monsters who've committed acts of war against us and/or have quite clearly been the agents of our enemies, as has Maossaoui, our feral bureaucrats have surely much to answer for.
Neither Massaoui nor any other of them should have ever made it into an American criminal court. Military Tribunal and Military sentence was always the way to go -- and still is.
Yo Bill...enjoy your retirement.
Add some gospel music to that. I think its a fine idea. I am sure somebody would stop it from happening though.
I hate LOGIC!!!
HATE HATE HATE it!
I'm not logical, just lazy. :)
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