Thanks to idiots like him we have Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, a number of Manson diciples and others in prison today, coming up for parole hearings ever few years.
He wants to consider only the consitution not the war on terror.
Seems just training in a terror camp, writing emails describing acts of terror, and planning terror does not make one a terrorist in this judge's mind.
Dan used to train some San Quentin prison guards and they have known Charlie for many years. They say that he is a pretty nice guy and well behaved.
Imagine all of the murderers on death row getting life with parole sentences.
Think of all of the expense trying to keep them in prison when they go before the parole board in addition to trying to get their convictions overturned.
Isn't this more important than if a thousand Mansons die now or suffer a life of total loss of freedom in largley barbaric conditions?
Whenever the name Sirhan Sirhan comes up, it reminds me of a time in the late eighties I was working alongside a black Muslim woman who seemed to be nice, normal, and proper. Sirhan had just started campaigning for parole, and when he came up in an office conversation, she sighed, "He's done enough time...why don't they just let that man go home?"
I blew a gasket -- one of the few times I have done so in an office setting, even in an room full of liberals. I told her I couldn't believe she had sympathy for a man who killed a Senator and presidential candidate, and said in no uncertain terms that he was lucky to be alive not only now, but seconds after he fired those shots.
Our relationship was strained after that, but I didn't feel guilty about it one bit. She asked for it, and so did Sirhan. Unfortunately, Sirhan didn't get it.