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Just want to know we are all talking about the same thing.
I still think the way to deal with these guys is to put them on a catapault and fling them about 200 feet through the air into a concrete wall where they would slide to the bottom and be siezed upon by about a dozen hogs that are fenced in.
It might sound kinda cruel, but 80% of Americans support catapault punishment.
Steyn goes straight to the heart of the matter. It's war, not a Quickie-Mart robbery gone bad.
Call me old fashioned, but as soon as he was caught, I would have taken Moussaoui outside, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. That is the only type of justice terrorists understand, and anything less is considered weakness.
I don't know man...life in supermax? Even 10 years in supermax. Might be better off dead. I think people are getting a little hysterical over this.
I'm wondering why nobody was saying this when Ramsey Yusef was sentenced? He was a lot more important than Al Qeada groupie, Mousssoui.
We are still rounding up Nazis and bringing them to justice, but that bonehead Moussaoui jury had no stomach for justice. It's very disturbing.
Steyn nails it again!
Speaking to Vremya Novostei, Nikolai Zlobin, the director for Russian and Asian programs of the Washington Institute of World Security, said that the U.S. legal system is precedent-based and “quite a few things” have been tested during the Moussaoui trial. “The sentence will lay solid foundations of future trials to punish fanatics like Moussaoui. I hope to see such trials take place in the future,” said Zlobin.
Pravda ( Moussaoui's life sentence: why not death penalty? )
A narrowly focused "criminal" approach means entrusting the whole business to the state bureaucracy. The obvious problem with that is that it's mostly reactive . . . gives terrorists all the rights of criminals . . .Agreeing to fight the jihad with subpoenas is, in effect, a declaration that you're willing to plea bargain. Instead of a Churchillian "we will never surrender!", it's more of a "Well, the judge has thrown out the mass murder charges, but the DA says we can still nail him on mail fraud."
This is a very unsatisfying article. It is more of a whine or a lament than commentary, because Steyn leaves unwritten his proposals for dealing with . . . well, if they're not criminals, what are they? Prisoners of War? Then, prisoners of what war? Processed under the authority of what American law? Just what is Steyn advocating? Summary executions? Maybe he's suggesting we model "terror justice" after Franco's military tribunals which followed the Spanish Civil War? What?
The way things are going, I feel like taking my little family and retreating to some hidden cove in the mountains, where we'll hold out as long as we can. Kind of like at the Alamo.
Where's our jail cams so we can make sure they are in solitary?
This guy is still alive? Why??!
IMHO, there is a thin line here....the thugs like Moussaoui, can be liken to Germany's brown shirts of the '30s, who were criminals, recruited in the beer halls, and were the thugs of the times...The Brown Shirts of Germany, intimidated the general German population, into supporting Hitler....and so, with Moussaoui,and his friends, we have "down trodden" human flotsam, acting in a criminal manner, to intimidate the general population, into the acceptance of Islam.....
The reason we have not take bin Laden can be attributed to the same faulty logic used for not executing Moussaoui. bin Laden is too hot for any Country to handle. We don't want him and neither does any other country because all lack the will to execute him.
The smartest thing he could do is to turn himself in to a nuetral country, if he can find one.
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Moussaoui lucked out ... if he had been tried by Judge Judy instead of the Oprah weenies, the trial would have lasted 25 minutes and he would have begun taking his dirt nap four years ago. A standard question prosecutors should ask when interviewing potential jurors might be, "Who do you like better ... Oprah or Judge Judy?"
LOL! Thanks for posting. I wondered what the Great MS was going to say about this.
Carlos the Jackal, BTW, during his stay in French maximum seecurity, has been permitted to marry his French lawyer (after she converted to Islam, as Carlos had done about 10 years earlier) and receive leftist heads of state. On his first official trip, Chavez even wanted to visit Carlos - whose brother is a high-ranking member of the VZ government - before he met Chirac, although the French drew the line at this.
Of course, I just read that Pres Bush seems to believe that the Gitmo prisoners should receive regular trials, so I'm feeling that the world has gone mad...
LOL! Thanks for posting. I wondered what the Great MS was going to say about this.
Carlos the Jackal, BTW, during his stay in French maximum seecurity, has been permitted to marry his French lawyer (after she converted to Islam, as Carlos had done about 10 years earlier) and receive leftist heads of state. On his first official trip, Chavez even wanted to visit Carlos - whose brother is a high-ranking member of the VZ government - before he met Chirac, although the French drew the line at this.
Of course, I just read that Pres Bush seems to believe that the Gitmo prisoners should receive regular trials, so I'm feeling that the world has gone mad...