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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At U.S. taxpayer expense,Moussaoui will be become a great holy man and cleric while in prison, converting thousands of ethnically disadvantaged fellow inmates, to become devout followers of fundamental islamic teachings.
Wrong, Jim. This Canadian government will NEVER lobby for his release or transfer.
I believe the mastermind behind the first WTC bombing is being held at the same prison. They aren't allowed any interaction with other prisoners.
As was with Jeffery D., the guards can "plan" some extra time with general pop.
He'd probably enjoy that.
I don't doubt that at all. My hope is that something better will be hammered out from whatever is left over.
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I know that, which is why Al Qaeda will be working very hard to get a Canadian government elected which will.
Think Spain.
You think Canada's eastern city dwellers will be any different when the bombs start going off?
Agreed.
I heard the sentence is to solitary confinement. It would seem the other cons will never even see him.
The meal will be slid between two doors. The guard will exit, and when that door is locked, his cell door will be unlocked to enable him to get the food.
I suspect he will be on a hunger strike soon enough.
The question is whether we allow him to expire or force feed him.
The FALN prisoners were nowhere near as well-known as Mousaoui, so it probably looked politically safer than pardoning Moussaoui would be.
If he gets to watch any tv I hope they make him watch Fiddler on the Roof , The Bible shows and anything anti muslim. 24-7. Of course this is not torture, its entertainment. Id love to see him go out of whatever mind he has. I am afraid that we will have a kidnapping where hes going to be the one they demand release.
For those who argue that his sentence of life without parole is the worse than death, can they guarantee that no Americans will be taken hostage/killed for Moussaoui's release, or that some future liberal president won't give him clemency?
I wish that were true; I'd love to see him thrown into the general population with street thugs. But the reality is that in the institution at which he'll be incarcerated he will spend 23 hours a day locked up alone, an hour a day in an exercise room (if he behaves) and will have NO contact with other prisoners. His only human contact will be guards and an occasional interrogator.
The best we can hope for is that he will be fed lots of pork, so he'll starve himself to a "peaceful" death, and is shown the pigskin body bag awaiting him.
The daughter of one of the victims said her mother would be happy with the verdict since she was against the death penalty.
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