Revenge on system cited as motive for rampage - Nichols saw himself as 'soldier on a mission'

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 3/15/05 | BETH WARREN

[xrp]

found guilty and executed in a Federal prison

I think he'd be more likely to be executed if prosecuted under Georgia law than federal law. I'm no expert, but I was under the impression that it is harder to execute under federal law.

[youngtory]

Don't forget that he also killed a black deputy. I wonder what his excuse is for that.

[Terpesman]

21 murders in the past month here in Philadelphia. WTF is going on??? This is what happens when criminals and degenerates are allowed to prey on law abiding folks.

Of course here in Philadelphia, the cops will stop me every 10 minutes for having tinted windows on my car. I guess it's easier to collect the $100 dollar fine from a hard working tax payer than it is to get out and do actual police work.

[hershey]

Bingo, but we won't talk about that because it's not PC.

[monday]

"He shot the black deputy because the deputy tried to stop him. He hunted the judge and stenographer down and shot them in cold blood. I think race was a factor in his choice of victims."

The article stated that he felt the legal system was unfair to him, not that white people were unfair to him. Since you couldn't have gotten your ideas from the article, they must come from your own racial prejudices.

[Gotterdammerung]

"Your idea of we is pretty scary if you ask me"

WE, as in we Americans

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Yuck.

Those people you mentioned are shit off my shoes.

I'm glad the real Americans I have met are nothing like that.

[An American In Dairyland]

But wasn't the one deputy black?

TWO were black. Deputy Cynthia Hall who he brutally assaulted and Deputy Hoyt Teasely who he gunned down.

[MarineBrat]

Here's my plea bargain!

[dljordan]

"So he admits to shooting people because they were white. Doesn't that count as a "hate crime"?

I don't know why it matters what his motives were. Who needs this crap? Give him a fair trial and then hang him.

[Ragnar54]

The enemy combatants at Guantanamo are not POWs. We are not at war with their home countries. They are civilians. We have elected to treat them per the Geneva convention, but that does not make them soldiers of foreign governments. Various leftist organizations and foreign governments are indignant about the detainees not being considered POWs but so far the administration has held firm.

A definition of a terrorist qualifying for trial by a tribunal is at:

Military Commission Instruction

The general requirement for a terrorist to be tried by a military tribunal is that
"The killing, harm or destruction took place in the context of and was associated with armed conflict".
Since the unquestionably guilty party has declared himself a "soldier" to several witnesses, we should take him at his word and execute him (this does not mean that we have to regard him as a actual soldier, but as a terrorist enemy combatant). A 15 year appeal cycle would be a waste of taxpayers' money.

[proud American in Canada]

"But wasn't the one deputy black?"

True, but the deputy was a sell-out, he was part of the oppressive system. /sarcasm

[mbynack]

The article stated that he felt the legal system was unfair to him, not that white people were unfair to him. Since you couldn't have gotten your ideas from the article, they must come from your own racial prejudices.

No. I've read a dozen related stories, one of which included a detailed description of his confession. I've also been listening to the news. The story that I read said that he felt that he had been wrongly accused and that he had sat in jail looking at all the other BLACK prisoners and wondering how many of them had also been wrongly accused.

He is the one who characterized the "system" as a "WHITE" system that victimized BLACKS.

[monday]

"The enemy combatants at Guantanamo are not POWs."

Since they are treated as per the Geneva convention and have been denied ordinary civilian justice, they are de facto POW's. You can split hairs and call them what ever you want. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. It makes no difference what you call them.

You say; "Since the unquestionably guilty party has declared himself a "soldier" to several witnesses, we should take him at his word and execute him (this does not mean that we have to regard him as a actual soldier"

So which is it? Is he a soldier or not? Shall we take him at his word or not? You can't have it both ways.

[monday]

"He is the one who characterized the "system" as a "WHITE" system that victimized BLACKS."

I have only your word on this. Do you have a reference?

[mbynack]

From this article:

"The official said Nichols, who was being tried in a rape case when Friday's deadly shooting spree occurred, considered himself a wrongly accused man in a legal system unfair to African-Americans."

"Nichols said he was angry that many of the inmates around him were also black and he wondered how many were innocent. "

"He called it systematic slavery," the law enforcement official said.

Based on this, it's hardly a huge leap in logic to deduce that there was some degree of racial motivation to Nichols' actions.

[finnman69]

Nichols is soon to be the next A.N.S.W.E.R. flavor of the month. Poor widdle Mumia will lose attention to this scumbag.

[Sloth]

But wasn't the one deputy black?

As a minion of The Man, he wasn't authentically black.

[nmh]

"His anger was focused more on the legal system than race. "

[monday]

"Based on this, it's hardly a huge leap in logic to deduce that there was some degree of racial motivation to Nichols' actions."

My objection is that you assume he sees the legal system in Atlanta as "white". The fact is, most politicians and judges in Atlanta are black. The mayor, the district attorney, most police officers, sheriffs deputies, etc. are all black. I see no evidence he targeted "whites". I suspect he would have shot the judge no matter what color he had been.

I object to you assuming this a racial issue when it probably isn't.