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Moussaoui Will Never Rot in Prison
Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/5/06 | DANIEL HENNINGER

Posted on 05/05/2006 4:24:36 AM PDT by mathprof

Need an antidote to the Moussaoui verdict? Go out this weekend to see "United 93."

Zacarias Moussaoui is lucky the jurors at his sentencing trial weren't allowed to see the movie "United 93" the day before reaching a verdict. If they had, rather than handing him life in prison, it is likely that one or more of the jurors would have come out of the box to deliver the death sentence himself -- just as the four doomed men on Flight 93 charged their hijackers to stop its fanatic pilots from flying the airliner into another American building.

Some will say the Moussaoui life sentence merely proves that we in the U.S. are beyond biblical justice, beyond an eye for an eye, even if our Islamic enemies do not bother to claim any grievance larger than resentment to justify the most startling slaughter of innocents all over the world. This argument -- that the refusal to impose the death penalty on Moussaoui shows "we are not like them" -- might have been entertainable before September 11. It may no longer be. [snip]

Our sense of normalcy may not be in our best interest.

As an example, one thought that occurred in the hour after seeing "United 93" had to do with the recent debate in the U.S. over the warrantless wiretapping of suspected phone calls between terrorists. In that hour, this "debate" seemed quite otherworldly. It is unlikely that in the first six months after September 11 Sen. Arlen Specter would ever have thought to intone that the wiretapping program was "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But he does now. Times change.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; moussaui; waronterr
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1 posted on 05/05/2006 4:24:40 AM PDT by mathprof
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France will immediately start agitation for his transfer to a French prison (i.e., his release). This will be an irritant to US-EU relations which, since it has the potential to go on for 50 years, may morph into a problem.
As long as France fails to gain his custody, the French state will weaken before its rapidly growing Islamic minority.

The UN will become involved. You can bet the General Assembly will "require" his transfer to France within the next year.

He will become Mr. International Mumia, but with no deadline for his transport to the next world the agitation will never end.

Every Democrat who runs for President for the next 50 years will be his Liberator-in-Waiting, in the spirit of international cooperation and respect for the world community, of course.

Now, that's the Europeans and the Canadians.

The Muzzies will immediately start direct action to gain his release. The impetuous ones will of course take hostages, and kill them. The clever ones will commit acts of terror in Europe and Canada, to turn up the heat.

This will go on, and on, and on until he is transferred to France (released) or killed.

In retrospect, the failure of the administration to execute him in 2001 was an incredible act of cowardice.


2 posted on 05/05/2006 4:26:43 AM PDT by Jim Noble (And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)
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To: mathprof

The jurors should be sterilized so that they don't contaminate the gene pool with their stupidity.


3 posted on 05/05/2006 4:28:59 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
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To: Jim Noble

People sometimes die in prison. There is still hope.


4 posted on 05/05/2006 4:30:15 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: peyton randolph

Well put!


5 posted on 05/05/2006 4:31:47 AM PDT by mathprof
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To: Gorzaloon

death by unga-bunga...


6 posted on 05/05/2006 4:32:35 AM PDT by bobjam
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ROFL


7 posted on 05/05/2006 4:36:37 AM PDT by Lost Dutchman (You can lead a liberal to knowledge, but you can't make them think)
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To: Gorzaloon
People sometimes die in prison. There is still hope.

Unfortunately, this hump Moussaoui isn't an enemy of the Clintons like Jim McDougal. Amazing how his heart medication just happened to be unavailable and poof!, no more Jim.

8 posted on 05/05/2006 4:36:40 AM PDT by Dahoser (Time to condense the stupid party nonsense: Terry Tate for RNC chairman.)
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To: Gorzaloon
People sometimes die in prison. There is still hope.

According to my "in family expert" on prisoners, my brother-in-law, who spent 23 years in prison, there are lots of patriotic cons. One of them will kill him - That's my prediction.

9 posted on 05/05/2006 4:38:36 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Jim Noble
France will immediately start agitation for his transfer to a French prison (i.e., his release)

When they re-activate 'Devils Island', then they can bring up the subject again..!

10 posted on 05/05/2006 4:38:47 AM PDT by Jay Howard Smith (Retired(25yrs)Military)
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To: mathprof

But, but poor widdle thing, his daddy wasn't father of the year!


11 posted on 05/05/2006 4:40:05 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: peyton randolph

Do we know WHO the jurors were, and which individual worked so hard to convince the rest that LIFE was better than DEATH>?


12 posted on 05/05/2006 4:44:27 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: mathprof
Imagine how some future citizens will feel when this scumbag needs a liver or heart transplant and he goes on the waitlist AHEAD of deserving Americans. What are the odds that at least one of those bumped down on the list will be a relative of one of the 9/11 victims?

We are too stoopid to survive the war against terror.

13 posted on 05/05/2006 4:49:13 AM PDT by Thom Pain (Supporting the Constitution is NOT right wing. It is centrist.)
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The Supermax facility in Colorado where this scumbag is heading allows no contact between inmates, Mousse's only contact will be whoever the guard(s) are on duty. His meals will be slid through a slot in the door, he will be let out of his cell at the very most, 1 hour a day for exercise IF he behaves. He will be permitted one shower per week. He will have an 8 inch plastic TV mounted in the wall, but no actual TV broadcasts, just taped educational self-improvement programs (which could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" in themselves, lol), and again - if he behaves, he gets the daily Islamobabble prayer programs so he can point his head toward Mecca and wonder WTF allah is doing to him.

Be assured of this, there is no way that France is going to get this scumbag out of the U.S. Mousse-baby is still the property of the U.S. Government, they're not finished with him, and won't be for a very long time.

Yes, it would be emotionally gratifying to see this SOB swing from a rope, but the Supermax cell he will be inhabiting for the rest of his days is nothing more than a waiting room for his eventual tranfer to Hell.


14 posted on 05/05/2006 4:52:48 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: rovenstinez
Do we know WHO the jurors were, and which individual worked so hard to convince the rest that LIFE was better than DEATH?

What I heard was that the jury was basically deadlocked, that a certain number wanted to fry him, but others did not. And since they couldn't come to a consensus on execution, he got life.

Don't know how true that is, though...

15 posted on 05/05/2006 4:54:09 AM PDT by mikemach5
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To: Graybeard58

"One of them will kill him - That's my prediction."

Bad thing is - they only have one hour each day to get at him.


16 posted on 05/05/2006 4:55:16 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: mkjessup
Mousse-baby is still the property of the U.S. Government, they're not finished with him, and won't be for a very long time.

President Rodham and Secretary of State Holbrooke may feel differently.

17 posted on 05/05/2006 4:56:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)
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To: Jim Noble
I'm all for releasing him to France if they want him...

... that is release him from a moving aircraft at 15,000 feet without a parachute, somewhere with a chance that he might be impaled on the Eiffel Tower.

But that's just me.

18 posted on 05/05/2006 4:58:06 AM PDT by Cliff Dweller (No such thing as a threat... just targets)
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To: mathprof

I believe he(Moussaoui), will be a guest in our prison for quite awhile. The French have always given us a hard time over, well, just about everything, just handing this piece of sh*t muzzie scum over to them won't change that.


19 posted on 05/05/2006 4:58:46 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Southern, Conservitive and Proud of it - Hmmm)
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To: peyton randolph
The jurors should be sterilized so that they don't contaminate the gene pool with their stupidity.

The jurors came from the Wash DC suburbs. this is a VERY liberal area - probably several were against the death penalty for any reason.

20 posted on 05/05/2006 4:59:32 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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