Comments on: Moussaui gets life

By: wooler

wooler — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:40:15 +0000

My question is why the masses choose to blog their outrage when the ACLU fights for the rights of prisoners over law-abiding citizens. Why not rally in the streets in front of the courts where it would really do some good?

In actuality, Moussaui’s won’t have any fewer civil liberties than any other prisoner in a supermax. With a little bit of luck a patriotic prisoner will grant him his wish of martyrdom. Does any American believe he is going to ‘paradise?’ Wouldn’t it be fun to see the look on his face when he realizes there aren’t any virgins in hell?

By: vet222

vet222 — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:38:14 +0000

One thing that I really like about this website is the normal tone of discussion, the higher level of intelligent discussion. There are so few in-your-face religious bigots like Parker that show up on so many other sites.

I suppose the life and death nature of this topic was too much for Parker’s fragile psychological structure. Massoui want to kill you too Parker, buck up.

By: Parker

Parker — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:59:02 +0000

Would that someone would quarantine everyone infected with that most American of mental illnesses, evangelical protestantism, too.

By: dclydew

dclydew — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:13:33 +0000

Anyone who asks to die should be listened to. If his religion is right, he would get to go enjoy the afterlife (and who would we be to stop him?). If Catholics are right, he’ll be tortured in worse ways than even Saddam could have dreamed up (and who are we to stop him?). If the athiests are right, then he’ll just be dead and well thats ok too, as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t think the government did a very good job with the trial (this seems to be the case more and more often). In fact, if M had kept his mouth shut I would understand the life imprisonment (he didn’t actually kill anyone). However, if the defendant asks to die, what the hell?! One less tailless monkey running around trying to mark his territory is no big loss.

By: Kevin Peters

Kevin Peters — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:41:23 +0000

Roger:
Everyone should get prepared for the bait and switch that’s coming. Super Max is touted as a far more civilized and harsher penalty then execution. And that is a solid argument. But it won’t take long before our super max system is going to be held up by the “Human Rights” industry as an example of why America is the greatest Human Rights violater in the world and many of the pundits who are pushing for this punishment will join the harangue. Will France try to get Moussaui released? No, but they will join the worlwide effort to paint Mous as a victim of America’s cruelty. I would say it will be about two years before the New York Times and the ACLU sue so Moussaui can be “heard’ and about 5 years before someone tries to get the super max system in front of the Hague. We are going to get beat up with this jerk for decades to come. Eventually college kids will be wearing Moussaui T-Shirts, just you wait.
What happens everytime an invasion of some form of dictatorship is considered. “No, that is uncivilized, economic sanctions are better.” Then after two to three years the eventual death and misery caused by sanctions, in the old day sanctions were called sieges and it is just another slower, sometimes crueler form of war, comes about and the sanction first crowd becomes the “how can you let these children suffer” crowd. The intellectual hypocrasy is stunning.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:39:25 +0000

Too angry to comment…

By: Tyler Simons

Tyler Simons — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:26:29 +0000

Islamism - is highly communicable and results in megadeath. It's spelled Megadeth.

By: vegetius

vegetius — Thu, 04 May 2006 14:54:47 +0000

Not only do we pay for his multi-million dollar trial, we now get to maintain him for the rest of his life while the court system is clogged with his appeals. This is humane?? Humane to whom??
This is civilized?? Is this kind of civilization worth preserving?? We are at war. War means fighting ;fighting means killing.
This reminds me of Princip(Sp?) the guy who who shot the Archduke Ferdinand. Princip got life in prison. The prisoners of the consequences of his actions got death in the trenches by the millions. This is absurd.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 04 May 2006 14:45:11 +0000

I don’t think that life in a Supermax was a bad outcome. The only thing missing is that he be forced to pray five times a day, every day, for the rest of his life. As Churchill pointed out in “The River War” this was considered a severe punishment, even among the followers of the Mahdi, if required for just eighteen months.

By: rosignol

rosignol — Thu, 04 May 2006 14:44:50 +0000

But that is the problem. If authorities try to isolate him the ACLU will rush to his rescue and sue to get him into the general population and retention of his rights.

Yay for the ACLU!

I generally prefer that a man being given a death sentence actually be sentenced to death, with this guy, I’ll take what I can get.