Long, Green Mile

Author: KablePublished: May 05, 2006 at 7:33 am 1 comment

Jihad's over.
For one man, so it seems.
37-year-old, 9/11 conspirator, Moussaui’s.
Matrimony to martyrdom.
ACCESS DENIED.
Foolish rhetoric.
From a skewered perspective.
Honey, welcome, to the rest, of your natural life...

Damn that.
Just missing out.
On the death penalty.
Newest tenant, on the Supermax bloc.
Poor mama’s bleating:
How dare, they leave her boy.
"To die, like a rat, in a hole..."

Sweeter, I’d imagine.
It could not be.
Justice served.
Yes.
Right, this time round.
Poetry from the lips of Judge Leonie Brinkema.
As she sentenced him.
To a green-mile, horror.
Of the most, unimaginable kind.

"You will spend the rest of your life in a supermaximum security prison… It’s quite clear who won… and who lost. You came here to be a martyr in a great bang of glory, but to paraphrase the poet T.S Elliot, instead you will die with a whimper. .. You will never again get a chance to speak and that’s an appropriate and fair ending..."

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  • 1 - Charles Backer

    May 05, 2006 at 2:52 pm

    Whatever one may think of this little relatively unimportant little criminal "Moussaui" - what worries most is the solitary confinement jail sentence for life which does not even comply with the most basic humen rights. Once again, this time on US soil and not in Cuba as Guantanamo Bay, America shows its contempt for international law.
    Looking forward to the day another country decides to payback the USA in same currency.

    Charles
    Barcelona- Spain

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