Shoe Bomber Challenges Prison Rules

fox ^ | 8-19-04

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DENVER — Al Qaeda member and Florence prison inmate Richard Reid has moved his court challenge of federal prison rules to Denver.

Reid is serving a life sentence for trying to blow up an airplane with explosives hidden in his shoes in 2001. The Justice Department has imposed restrictions on Reid and other terrorism-related prisoners they consider a threat to national security.

In a handwritten lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver last week, Reid wrote he has been kept in isolation in a cell with a window that does not let him see outside, and that his mail is inspected by authorities.

He said he has been denied access to religious materials, books, classes and correspondence courses, some television and radio stations, prison jobs, telephone calls with his aunts and uncles, daily showers, and his subscription to Time magazine.

Prosecutors say such restrictions are necessary because Al Qaeda members sometimes communicate through coded messages, but Reid and two other Florence inmates with suspected ties to Al Qaeda have filed court challenges saying too many of their rights have been restricted.

None of the cases has resulted in changes so far.

Reid originally filed a complaint in Boston to receive uncensored copies of Time, but a federal appeals court there said in May that it would not resolve the matter because Reid was being held in Colorado.

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Reid originally filed a complaint in Boston to receive uncensored copies of Time, but a federal appeals court there said in May that it would not resolve the matter because Reid was being held in Colorado.

This guy is truly intellectually disadvantaged, isn't he?

[EggsAckley]

Yeah, all of those religious materials, books, classes and correspondence courses must be really important to him.

(not)

[BulletBobCo]

They should give him a pet pig to keep him company.

[samtheman]

Web cam in his cell. Show prospective AQs what life's gonna be like.

[NonValueAdded]

Venue shopping? Why didn't he try for a court in the 9th Circus?

[ChefKeith]

Hey Reid- you gave up all rights when you tried to blow up the Airliner.

Stupid POS- rot in prison scumball

[ChefKeith]

Hey Reid- you gave up all rights when you tried to blow up the Airliner.

Stupid POS- rot in prison scumball

[AdamSelene235]

He said he has been denied access to religious materials, .................and his subscription to Time magazine.

[Mears]

No Time Magazine? Oh,the cruelty of it all.

Three meals and a cot. Period.

[nmh]

Put a bomb in his meal ... .

[nmh]

I really think we need to roll out the red carpet for this guy.


LOL!

[WestCoastGal]

"In a handwritten lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver last week, Reid wrote he has been kept in isolation in a cell with a window that does not let him see outside, and that his mail is inspected by authorities."

" He said he has been denied access to religious materials, books, classes and correspondence courses, some television and radio stations, prison jobs, telephone calls with his aunts and uncles, daily showers, and his subscription to Time magazine."

Too darn bad they didn't throw him out of the plane over the Atlantic!!!!!

[siunevada]

Ironically, after a few years of reading Time magazine in prison he could turn around and claim that being subjected to Time is cruel and unusual punishment.

[nightdriver]

"Hey Reid- you gave up all rights when you tried to blow up the Airliner."

True enough. They should let him have his shoes back and put him and his compadres in an old shell of a plane in Davis-Monthan boneyard along with some extra explosive and let them blow themselves up like they tried to in the first place.

[Dog Gone]

Al-Qaida prefers Time Magazine

[Diogenesis]

"We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid ...
"You’re a big fellow. But you’re not that big. You’re no warrior. I know warriors....
You are a terrorist, a species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders."
To call you a soldier gives you far too much stature.
You are a terrorist, and we do not negotiate with terrorists.
We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. ...
"See that flag, Mr. Reid?
That is the flag of the United States of America
That flag will fly there long after this is long forgotten."
[Federal Chief Judge William Young, First Circuit to Terrorist Shoebomber Reid]

[Diogenesis]

"We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid ...
"You’re a big fellow. But you’re not that big. You’re no warrior. I know warriors....
You are a terrorist, a species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders."
To call you a soldier gives you far too much stature.
You are a terrorist, and we do not negotiate with terrorists.
We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. ...
"See that flag, Mr. Reid?
That is the flag of the United States of America
That flag will fly there long after this is long forgotten."
[Federal Chief Judge William Young, First Circuit to Terrorist Shoebomber Reid]

[MarkL]

AFAIC, when he tried blowing up the airplane, from that moment on, the only thing he has a "right" to is a single 9mm cartridge.

Mark

[cardinal4]

He is rotting, allright, Florence Colorado is the Federal SuperMax. There are no windows and lockdown is 23 hours a day. Lifes tough when you are a scumbag al qaeda terrorist in a US prison. The pr*ck should have thought about it when he tried to detonate himself at FL310..