Victory at last, victory at last, great God almighty, victory at last!
What a spectacular way to punctuate the ending of a less than adequate "Jihad Martyr." On Wednesday, Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison, not the death penalty, and I for one can think of no other way to disgrace, humiliate, and dispose of such a despicable character. No martyrdom. No virgins. No glory. Only shame and disgrace as the little engineer that couldn't. There is joy in Mudville tonight!
This disgraceful coward could not even apply his terroristic traits properly, much less beg for the death he so richly deserved in order to get to his reward of virgins, etc., that his extremist views promised him. Quite the opposite; he will go down in history as the one who couldn't, the one who taunted America during his four year trial, and in the end the one who thanked some God (obviously not Allah), for his salvation in declaring, "America, you lost. I won."
He clapped his hands as he was escorted away like a giddy little schoolgirl. He couldn't even hold to his demented view of his faith and express his desire to be a martyr. He has betrayed all, and we absolutely win. He has replaced honor and respect on the Muslim community by deferring to natural instincts and renouncing his distorted view of the Koran. Short of resurrecting the countless victims he had a hand on, this is at least a poetic justice for now.
Watch out for "Bubba" in jail, Zack. I hear he has an affinity for bald guys.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Silas Kain
I hope the man goes into the general population. He'll be dead far quicker than he would have been should the jury have chosen death. And if any of his cellmates read this Blog, I hope they use pork fat for lube.
2 - Hunter
Seriously, if anybody on either side of the political spectrum wanted this man to die by death penalty, you are playing into their hands. Giving this man a respectable death, giving him martyrdom, giving respect to his beliefs, it would only encourage others. Let him live his life in a depressing cell, or to lose his life by some two-bit criminal shiv him in the lunch-line. To give him the death penalty would just make him out to be something other than than the headline-hunting, wannabe that he is.
3 - Alex
I sometimes can't help but feel that this all plays like the script to another Hollywood gem and you can't give your paid actors the death penalty. Closure at any price. I hope i'm wrong.
4 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
Alex, Alex, Alex, any other puke but this one, I might agree, but to dole out the death penalty to this putrid wretch would only serve to "rally the cause" These guys want to die, they live to die, 72 virgins and all. By jailing him, we deny that expression, and the beautiful exclamation point is the way he actually coveted life at the end of the trial. What a French National phony!
5 - Alex
Hi Paul. I agree we denied him all those things by giving him life and the irony of his last minute rant is not lost on me. But it just got me thinking.
a)Was he, on any conscious level, denied the death penalty so as to deny him his "reward".
b)This is great hollywood.
I think what we have a is a combination of the two. A risk taken to give us b) by engineering a).
Soon everybody gets to understand what he lost by not geting the death penalty, so that the final outcome does not offend anybody. Prolife is happy and those wanting him dead now believe he has been dealt a worse blow. Genius! but just a thought.
6 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
"Let the punishment fit the crime"
By fate, science, or intelligent design, I think we have achieved that here.
7 - Alex
Well said, and enough i suspect. Thanks Paul.
8 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
I generally with Silas (comment #1). The thing that bothers me is that those others who ought to be there with the fellow aren't also in jail. Perhaps the Almighty has something for "fun" reserved for them.
9 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
Ruvy
I can only dream that 'Bubba' gets to visit them as well someday.
10 - RedTard
I think what he got is much worse than death. Solitary confinement for life is sick. After a couple years he'll be begging for the needle.
There won't be a chance for Bubba or inmate interaction he'll be locked in a cell by himself until he dies. He will get one hour a day outside his cell to exercise but that will be solitary as well.
The US wins both ways, he gets a punishment arguably worse than death and doesn't score martyr points.
11 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
Yes Red,
If 'Bubba' is nothing more than a cockroach that taunts him, I will still be happy.
12 - zingzing
redtard--while i agree with most of what you have to say here, "The US wins both ways" is absolutely false. we didn't win jack. nada. but shit, now we're playing to lose it seems, gambling the fate of the world for some big money oil payout.
13 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
zingzing,
""The US wins both ways" is absolutely false. we didn't win jack. nada. but shit, now we're playing to lose it seems, gambling the fate of the world for some big money oil payout."
How does this fit in with Moussaoui, and martyrdom denial, etc.? I thoght Red Tard hit it pretty close to the head.
14 - Matthew T. Sussman
If it weren't for that damn 8th Amendment, we could make a Bug-Off large enough for The Moose.
Go Medieval!
15 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
Well, then they should spin him in circles before placing him in a round cell, and deny him info on which way is East.
16 - Joey
He's not going into general population.
Besides, we don't send people to prison to get raped, or to endure the punishment of general population. That would be cruel and unusual punishment. Unfortunately that is exactly what prison has become.
Send them to prison the receive their punishment, not to pay for their mistakes.
Kind of a double whammy, and it certainly is not the original intent of the penal system.
It's a disgrace. All prisoners should be locked down hard. The debt to society would be better paid if the additional "punishment" didn't include "jailhouse justice."
17 - zingzing
Paul: "How does this fit in with Moussaoui, and martyrdom denial, etc.?"
are you kidding? what the hell did we win? the right to take of some crazy man for the next 40 years? big whoop! the right to bury thousands of people? yeah! fun! we didn't win shit. sure, moussaoui didn't win either, but to claim that we won anything is just silly.
18 - steve
usually im one for the death penalty...but I would rather let this low-life rot in a 6x8 23 hours a day
19 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
Ok zingzing,
The sky is falling, the world is ending and we are all doomed to eternal damnation. Take no solace from the little victories along the way and hide safely here in blogland, lest you venture out to face the real world once again. 9/11 is over, we are at War. Both physically and spiritually, look around, read some comments, it will be ok, and if for you it won't? Well it will be what it will be. Move on.
steve says it well, above.
"let this low-life rot in a 6x8 23 hours a day"
That 6x8 is there and paid for whether it is attended or not, an I personally feel some sense of pride in our judicial system to use it well.
20 - mike
The only virgin he will be seeing will be Palmela Handerson.
21 - zingzing
so... instead of, you know, the lives of... how many people have died because of 9/11 and this war?... lots of people, you'd rather have some idiot rotting in jail?
weigh those options. we won what now?
i'm not particularily upset about 9/11 anymore, so i don't really need "solace" in this "little [piece of shit] victory." i just don't think that putting some guy who, at best, played a small part in what happened. there are tons of other people more directly involved who we haven't caught. like bin laden. that would be something. this guy is nothing. he's a piece of shit that the media holds up as some sort of big bad man. fuck off. he's just a little bit player who wanted some glory, and he got it... he just wanted attention... he didn't want to die or be a martyr.
nobody "won" jack here. it's a lose-lose situation. let him rot. great. he should be in jail. just don't think it's some great victory for america or something. it's rabbit pellets. it means nothing.
22 - zingzing
hrm. i fucked that up. paragraph 3, sentence 2 should read "i just don't think that putting some guy in jail who, at best, played a small part in what happened is some great fucking coup." or something like that.
23 - Paul Jordan, Sr.
You said the words of victory and you didn't even notice.
"this guy is nothing. he's a piece of shit that the media holds up as some sort of big bad man. fuck off. he's just a little bit player who wanted some glory, and he got it... he just wanted attention... he didn't want to die or be a martyr."
And it is exactly for this reason, this "peice of shit" should not have gotten the death penalty, you were correct in saying, "he didn't want to die or be a martyr." But the very second this guy would have been put to death, regardless of his true religious colors, the "Jihad" assholes of the world would have raised a banner with his name in batle cry, the likes of which Bin Laden only dreams of. So, no, this does not put 3000 people back on earth, but it damn sure influences the number of remaining souls here on earth that will not die in this pukes name!
24 - zingzing
that's true. but it still isn't a victory, it just prevents other, unrelated losses. yeah for us! this isn't a game, so there is no winner. we've already lost more than we could ever hope to gain in the future.
25 - zingzing
so no, i do not consider this a victory. it's just more suffering.