freecounterpoint: Moussaoui Verdict: Life

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Moussaoui Verdict: Life

So it goes, I think the idea is that he won't become an Islamic martyr with a Life sentence.

18 comments:

The Darkroom said...: agreed: a death verdict for this pathetic terrorist-wannabe with a suicide wish would have been overreaching. Certainly his self-agrandising "confessions" weren't beleivable.

I am surprised at the wisdom of the jury though - i certainly wouldn't have bet a morrocan dirham on this outcome.; 5/03/2006 5:25 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I hope bin Laden goes "poof" (with any type of ordinance, not just U.S.) and fades away without anyone knowing about it.

I doubt that will happen though, and conversely, even if bin Laden or Moussaoui dies without the world watching, some jihad assholes are gonna resurrect him down the road. This s#@t has been going on for over 1,300 years.; 5/03/2006 5:58 PM
Tecumseh said...: "America, you lost," Moussaouitaunted, clapping his hands as he left the courtroom. "I won."

To make the Angry Left proud.; 5/03/2006 9:12 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I hear what you're saying, AI. I'm still trying to find positives out of this. AA will modify.; 5/03/2006 9:22 PM
Tecumseh said...: Mirabile dictu -- a Georgetown prof gets it.; 5/03/2006 10:50 PM
Tecumseh said...: Here is the list of inmates at ADX Florence, the little resthouse where Moussaoui is headed for. Who's gonna be his Bubba?; 5/03/2006 11:14 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Looks like he's gonna have all sorts of interesting and peculiar company. I wonder if any of the inmates had relatives in the Trade Towers... hmmmm...; 5/03/2006 11:33 PM
The Darkroom said...: >zack's bubba
no one, it seems:

ADX Florence is generally home to between 400 and 500 male prisoners. About 22 percent of inmates have killed fellow prisoners in other correctional facilities; 35 percent have attempted to attack other prisoners or guards. As a result, most individuals are kept for at least 23 hours each day in solitary confinement. They are housed in a 7-by-12 foot (3.5-by-2 meter) soundproofed room, built behind a steel door and grate. The remaining free hour is spent exercising alone in a separate concrete chamber. Prisoners rarely see each other, and inmates' only human interaction is limited to that of the prison guards.; 5/04/2006 10:18 AM
Tecumseh said...: This may be so -- I don't particularly care how that Frenchman will be spending his time in prison.

But, how long before the "Free Mumia" crowd will start marching up and down, demanding that Moussaoui be freed? And, can the mayor of Paris be far behind, making Zack an honorary Parisian? Oops, he is Parisian -- well, I'm sure Delanoë can think of something to honor his concitoyen.; 5/04/2006 4:42 PM
Tecumseh said...: On cue, the French start agitating for Moussaoui's release -- well, into their custody, but your guess is as good as mine as to what that means.; 5/04/2006 7:17 PM
Tecumseh said...: The Franco-AlJazeera view.; 5/04/2006 8:38 PM
Mr roT said...: AI, these last 2 stories are hilarious. Truly hilarious.; 5/04/2006 10:16 PM
Tecumseh said...: So how did you like my Nostadamus-like predictions about what the French will do? OK, OK, that was not so complicated -- after all, the French are so predictable -- but still, I think I deserve an IPA or three.; 5/04/2006 10:50 PM
Mr roT said...: pretty good. we'll here that US prisons are inhumane not like the Club Meds the French run... You remember that Italian terrorist woman we sent to Italy to serve the rest of her sentence? I can't remember her name. During that dog and pony show, the Corriere had all these pictures of her jail cell in the US and compared it to what she would have in Rome...
I think the local commie junta released her as soon as she got off the plane then Berlu and his boys were able to get her back in jail a while.; 5/04/2006 11:12 PM
The Darkroom said...: >franco-al-jazeera view
puh-leeze - what next ? chirac/usama, same struggle same fight?
C'mon AI, if we go down that road, I'm going to start referring to you right-wing nuts as nazis. Then we'll really go nowhere.; 5/05/2006 12:25 AM
Tecumseh said...: For the Left, calling people who don't toe the Party line Nazis is second nature -- they teach it in Scientific Socialism 101 classes, fer sure. I put absolutely no weight on the term -- it has become meaningless in the vocabulary (such as it is) of the Left.

As for the AlJazeera -- French connection, I was merely alluding to the AlJazeera article, which was quoting approvingly from the French/Euro view, comparing and contrasting it to the brutish American view:

In Europe, Moussaoui's trial was widely considered less about terrorism than about what Europeans consider the perplexing American attachment to the death penalty.

Some French and Arab commentators also see Moussaoui as a scapegoat for a US administration eager to produce results in its increasingly discredited anti-terror war.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Les grands esprits se rencontrent.; 5/05/2006 12:39 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: AI, hilarious yes, but don't forget this part:

Moussaoui's mother, Aisha el Wafi, said her son would be living like a "rat in a hole" and accused France of siding with the United States during the trial.

"I feel there is a part of me that is dead, buried with my son who will be buried for the rest of his life at the age of 37 for things he hasn't done," she said.; 5/05/2006 12:51 AM
Tecumseh said...: Yes, I saw that, but did not quite know what to make of it. That the mother is upset is understandable, but hey, maybe she should have made a bigger effort to better educate Zack. As for putting the onus on the French for siding with the US, well, yes, that's a hoot. Only in France could this be viewed as Cartesian logic.; 5/05/2006 1:00 AM