"France May Seek Custody of Moussaoui"
Right. And thanks for all your help in the GWOT.
posted by Barney at 9:40 PM
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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2 Comments:
I want that monster to languish, but I also want him to languish HERE, in one of OUR prisons. The idea of turning him over to the French is lunacy, in my judgment. How long would it be before a new round of urban riots in Muslim enclaves around Paris persuaded the government to release Moussaoui in an effort to appease or placate the rioters (who probably would not be characterized as "rioters" anyway?)
I just read Peggy Noonan's column on the Moussaoui verdict. While I do not agree with her basic conclusions, I can certainly understand them, and I can perhaps agree with her to the extent of saying that the jury may have done the right thing for the wrong reasons. (In other words, I believe there were good reasons to sentence him to life in prison, but the fact that he was abused as a child was not one of them. I was abused, too, but by all accounts managed to turn out okay anyway, and I haarbor no intentions at all of flying hijacked planes into buildings or otherwise killing innocent people.) And I share her concerns about some future hostage crisis centering around demands that he be released. In that event, assuming he has had at least some time to languish and vegetate, perhaps an unfortunate prison incident of some kind could be arranged, so as to result in an unpleasant and painful death for Moussaoui. What ultimately befell the late Jeffrey Dahmer comes to mind as a possibility. Or better yet, there should be a fire in some other part of the prison, which would block any access to his cell, so that over a period of about an hour and a half -- roughly the time it took both WTC towers to collapse -- he could suffer the same agonies those people went through before finally succumbing and being greeted in the dark and benighted dominion of Sheol by none other than Master Mahan himself.
And although I happen to agree with the jury's decision in this particular case, it presented a very close question, and I would surely have felt differently if martyrdom were not so important to this defendant.
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