Moussaoui suffered difficult childhood, social worker testifies

Associated Press ^ | April 17, 2006 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

[texas_mrs]

OMG! His mother was repeatedly BEATEN! Well, I suppose this would excuse every stinking one of them then, wouldn't it?!

[GSlob]

"Well, what are you gonna say if you're his lawyer and he won't plead insanity?"
That his very refusal to plead insanity proves that he is insane beyond any doubt, reasonable or otherwise.

[DustyMoment]

OMG! His mother was repeatedly BEATEN!

Hmmmmmmmmm . . . . . . . . was she . . . . . . . . umm, MUSLIM!!??

Treatment like that for women is an integral part of the RELIGION OF PEACE!!!!!

[CougarGA7]

And this absolves him of responsibility because why?

This crap always makes my blood boil. "It's societies fault".

BS! You are responsible for the actions you take. YOU. YOU. YOU.

I came from a broken home. I had an abusive stepfather growing up. I did not use it for justification for antisocial or malicious behavior, because I make my own decisions and I'm responsible for them.

/rant off

[TexasCajun]

In islamic muslim society is not abuse nor a difficult childhood for parents to send their children into a public restaurants strapped down with explosives as long as the explosion kills the Jews and the western infidels!

Islamic "Parent Of The Year" awards follow.

[Catholic Canadian]

Awwww.....booo hooo, little repressed homo that he is.

[roaddog727]

"You're more compassionate than I am."

Naw, I was just having to push extra hard while conjuring up a sympathetic response and the extra hoo slipped out....

:-)

[softwarecreator]

and his 72 virgins all look like Helen Thomas

Now that is just sick!  =)  Hell ain't pretty, that's for sure.

[beelzepug]

"...an integral part of the RELIGION OF PEACE!!!"

As long as the stick isn't any bigger around than your thumb. Sounds like a normal Muz family to me.

[M203M4]

My only qualm about ending his life violently (which is what he deserves) is that he would be seen as a martyr in camel-rapist land. Taking everything into consideration, I would prefer to use torture to compel him to commit suicide (in an agonizing way, such as through the ingestion of toxic and/or corrosive agents, or alighting himself atop a greenwood pyre).

[pax_et_bonum]

Now you're just being humble...

;-)

[bkepley]

--That his very refusal to plead insanity proves that he is insane beyond any doubt, reasonable or otherwise.

Never work. The lawyer's just trying (with no real hope) to get leniency.

[Barney Gumble]

The parents of his teenage girlfriend were nonetheless proved right with their "dirty arab" comments. I can imagine them now, telling their daughter "see I told you. aren't you glad we told you not to date him."

[surrey]

My husband was thinking firehose in a specific place...ouch!

[GSlob]

"Never work. The lawyer's just trying (with no real hope) to get leniency."
If I'm a lawyer and supposed to say something, I have to provide some more or less coherent noise, dammit! Whether it works or not, is irrelevant.

[roaddog727]

"That his very refusal to plead insanity proves that he is insane beyond any doubt, reasonable or otherwise."

That's a Catch 22 argument if I ever heard one.

[WestTexasWend]

"...use torture to compel him to commit suicide (in an agonizing way, such as through the ingestion of toxic and/or corrosive agents, or alighting himself atop a greenwood pyre)."

Okay, but see if you can work in a little pork somewhere.

[SpinnerWebb]

I hope he suffers a painful and humiliating adulthood as well.

[schaketo]

As a teenager, she said, he was rejected as a "dirty Arab" by the family of his longtime girlfriend, with whom he lived and won dance contests.

How about winning one dancing at the end of a rope?

[absolootezer0]

what's next.. they gonna break out into song ala west side story?

Hear ye, Her ye! In the opinion
Of this court, this child is
Depraved on account he ain’t had a normal home.

RIFF
Hey, I’m depraved on account I’m deprived!

SNOWBOY
So take him to a headshrinker.

RIFF
My Daddy beats my Mommy,
My Mommy clobbers me,
My Grandpa is a Commie,
My Grandma pushes tea.
My sister wears a mustache,
My brother wears a dress.
Goodness Gracious, that’s why I’m a mess!

Yes!
Officer Krupke, he shouldn’t be here.
This boy don’t need a couch, he needs
A useful career.
Society’s played him a terrible trick,
And sociologically he’s sick!

RIFF
I am sick!