Oh Noes! No death penalty! Kill the jury!
I'm giving it about 3 hours before some right wingnut goes on a frothing-at-the-mouth kill-the-ragheads rant about how a federal jury sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty. I would not be shocked in the least to hear some knuckle-dragger demand the arrest of the jury as enemy combatants and tried for treason.
Listen up, assholes.
This is the system we have. This man was sentenced by a jury of his peers. Based on the evidence presented to them, they decided that this was the right decision. That's how it works.
If you don't like it, why don't you go live somewhere where you don't have the right to trial by jury. Say, Iran. Or Saudi Arabia. I'm sure you'll fit right in there, with your Bud Light and your NASCAR.
The right to a trial by jury is a building block of the American society. If you don't like it, then you must hate America. (I've always wanted to throw that line back in the face of some asshole neocon.)
Killing this man (who is, arguably, mentally ill) would make us no better than the "terrists" who you claim to hate so much. The only difference is that we don't televise the executions. (Yet. "Mr. President, Fox on line 1.") Not to mention we'd be creating yet ANOTHER martyr for Al Quaida to use as a recruiting tool.
Enough people have died already. 3000 of our citizens died that day. Killing this one person will not bring them back. Matter of fact, nothing will bring them back, not turning the Middle East into a glass parking lot, not deporting all the Mexicans, not shooting all the Muslims. None of it will help.
Then again, you're not about the help. It's much easier to hate.
Listen up, assholes.
This is the system we have. This man was sentenced by a jury of his peers. Based on the evidence presented to them, they decided that this was the right decision. That's how it works.
If you don't like it, why don't you go live somewhere where you don't have the right to trial by jury. Say, Iran. Or Saudi Arabia. I'm sure you'll fit right in there, with your Bud Light and your NASCAR.
The right to a trial by jury is a building block of the American society. If you don't like it, then you must hate America. (I've always wanted to throw that line back in the face of some asshole neocon.)
Killing this man (who is, arguably, mentally ill) would make us no better than the "terrists" who you claim to hate so much. The only difference is that we don't televise the executions. (Yet. "Mr. President, Fox on line 1.") Not to mention we'd be creating yet ANOTHER martyr for Al Quaida to use as a recruiting tool.
Enough people have died already. 3000 of our citizens died that day. Killing this one person will not bring them back. Matter of fact, nothing will bring them back, not turning the Middle East into a glass parking lot, not deporting all the Mexicans, not shooting all the Muslims. None of it will help.
Then again, you're not about the help. It's much easier to hate.
posted by Zach Burnham at 5:22 PM (click for permalink)
2 Comments:
So, did they go frothing? I'd forgotten about the verdict. But I'm glad he's got lift. Martyrdom is bad, mmkay?
Gah.. people need to replace their blown gaskets.. while I'd be happy to see him fry, I do believe that the sentencing in this case was correct. To sentence him to death would be giving him that martyrdom he so desperately wants.
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