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Shoe Bomber Challenges Prison Rules
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| 8-19-04
Posted on 08/19/2004 3:43:22 PM PDT by PinnedAndRecessed
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; doj; inmates; richardreid; shoebomber; time; timemag; timemagazine
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To: PinnedAndRecessed
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?
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:46:19 PM PDT
by
PinnedAndRecessed
(O.K! I made the "about" page. So read it, already!)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Yeah, all of those religious materials, books, classes and correspondence courses must be really important to him.
(not)
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:48:09 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(........."Yo" is "Oy" spelled backwards.........)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
They should give him a pet pig to keep him company.
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Web cam in his cell. Show prospective AQs what life's gonna be like.
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:49:36 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(www.georgewbush.com)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Venue shopping? Why didn't he try for a court in the 9th Circus?
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:52:46 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(When it came to Intelligence, Kerry was absent)
To: PinnedAndRecessed; WestCoastGal
Hey Reid- you gave up all rights when you tried to blow up the Airliner.
Stupid POS- rot in prison scumball
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:53:06 PM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(Life is GREAT with CoCo..........NASCAR...everything else is just a game!(Except War & Love))
To: PinnedAndRecessed; WestCoastGal
Hey Reid- you gave up all rights when you tried to blow up the Airliner.
Stupid POS- rot in prison scumball
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:53:12 PM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(Life is GREAT with CoCo..........NASCAR...everything else is just a game!(Except War & Love))
To: PinnedAndRecessed
He said he has been denied access to religious materials, .................and his subscription to Time magazine.
To: PinnedAndRecessed
No Time Magazine? Oh,the cruelty of it all.
Three meals and a cot. Period.
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:55:40 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Put a bomb in his meal ... .
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:57:25 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
I really think we need to roll out the red carpet for this guy.
LOL!
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:58:38 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: ChefKeith
"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!!!!!
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posted on
08/19/2004 3:59:00 PM PDT
by
WestCoastGal
("How do the gauges look?" -Jr "They're silver and they all have nice little red needles…" GO JR!!!!!)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
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.
To: ChefKeith
"
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.
To: PinnedAndRecessed
Al-Qaida prefers Time Magazine
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posted on
08/19/2004 4:05:49 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: nightdriver
"
We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid ...
"Youre a big fellow. But youre not that big. Youre 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]
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posted on
08/19/2004 4:07:27 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
"
We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid ...
"Youre a big fellow. But youre not that big. Youre 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]
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posted on
08/19/2004 4:08:21 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
To: PinnedAndRecessed
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
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posted on
08/19/2004 4:10:09 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Dude!!! You're farting fire!!!!)
To: ChefKeith
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..
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posted on
08/19/2004 4:11:05 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(John Kerry- "A Hamster Tale..")
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