May 03, 2006
Moussaoui Gets Life... Or Does He?
Part of me thinks Rusty is probably right: if Zacarias Moussaoui gets life in prison for his part in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, how can we really justify putting to death any other terrorists we may capture? That is a rather disturbing question.
At the same time, life is prison, even in what is likely to be solitary confinement, is perhaps more likely to result in his dying within this next decade. Jeffrey Dahmer, a cannibalistic serial killer of 17 men, was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences in February of 2002, but was murdered by another inmate in 2004. Child molester John Geoghan was also sentenced to life in 2002 and murdered by another inmate two years later.
It is quite possible that Moussaoui will create enough hatred among the inmate population that his life sentence will end up being a very short stay.
John Walker Lindh is doing quite well in prison. He has become a sort of prison "imam" and is apparently well respected by the other inmates - even non-Muslim inmates. They consider him, unbelievably , "a role model."
If Moussaoui winds up like that, I think we will be very sorry as a nation.
Posted by: tommy at May 3, 2006 05:30 PMI think that he should be placed in the general prison population. With luck, he will be beaten up every day by the other inmates for the rest of his pathetic life.
When Moussaoui dies, may he be greeted by 72 old whores who all look like Yasser Arafat.
chsw10605
Posted by: chsw10605 at May 3, 2006 06:42 PMThere is now no chance of him being raped or murdered in prison. The media is stating he is almost certainly going to ADX Florence, the Alcatraz of the Rockies. In this supermax prison, where Timothy McVeigh went, he will write books, engage in frivolous lawsuits, and garner media attention for decades to come.
All at an annual cost to the taxpayers of something like $100K a year.
Wonderful, huh?
Posted by: MLC at May 3, 2006 07:19 PMAMERICA, YOU LOST!
Once again Alberto (our seemingly incompetent but PC AG) has his lunch eaten With Alberto’s abysmal lack of success in cases relating to the War on Terror you have to question my liberal President’s commitment . It seems more and more to have all been a disingenuous political flim flam; all be it a successful flim flam. Only batting is baseball is a success rate less than 500 considered good. In fielding a good rate is 999 and in the technical side of business (Accounting, IS…) you need 99999 or better to be a success. With Alberto’s string of losses the last 12 month he is just under 500.
My liberal President obviously put quotas ahead of the War on Terror. With the Dubai cases (plural as in more than one) it seems Bush does not even have the War on Terror in his to ten list of priorities! As the Scotch have been saying for over 1500 years ”actions speak louder than words”. Bush’s liberal actions the last 16 months are shouting over his conservative words of 24 months ago!
Posted by: Rodney A Stanton at May 4, 2006 07:16 AM
