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| And the Window Closes... |
| Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
 "America, you lost. I won."
The words of defiance by terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui as he laughed and clapped at the gutless decision by nine men and three women to allow the pitiful excuse of a human being to rot in the American prison system instead of terminating his life for the crimes against this great nation. It is a sad day, a cold day and a day where America showed that it is incapable of dealing with the type of scum that Moussaoui is associated with.
If we cannot execute a guy like Moussaoui after all of the things he said during his trial and all of the evidence against him, are we going to be able execute Osama bin Laden if we one day manage to capture the terrorist mastermind?
What is sad is that, in this case, Moussaoui is correct. If the score of the war on terrorism were tabulated today, it would be Terrorism 1, America .5 (the .5 is because even though those cowards on the jury refused to put this scum to death, he still remains off of the streets plotting another deadly attack like the one we witnessed on September 11th). Yup, you saw that score right.
America missed out here. We missed out on sending a message to international terrorism that our nation is not a nation that allows terrorism to continue. Instead, we pulled our pants down and handed the paddle to the enemy. And they are whacking hard.
Alexander Santora, a father who had to deal with the murder of Christopher Santora, his firefighter son, as a result of September 11th said that "a bullet in his brain would have been a just reward."
And it sure would have been. We should have sent this guy to the "Paradise" he thought he was going to. Being a Christian, I hold my own reservations about the pathway to heaven but the Islamic community has said countless times that the types of crimes that cowards like Moussaoui committed are the types of things that would block someone from reaching "Paradise." Either way, the guy should have been placed in the chair and sent straight to the firey depths of Hell.
But America just couldn't find the two circular items down below the belt.
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If we executed him, it would have both left him as a martyr to his cause and would have run afoul of American law. He was in custody before September 11th, 2001, and though he was a low-level agent in the planning of those attacks, he was being tried essentially for purposefully withholding information that might have prevented them. I agree that what he did was absolutely despicable, but it wasn't a crime punishable by the death penalty in the US.
Either way, he is no longer a part of the fight against the United States, which is the important part. Many of the family members of people who died on September 11th have also pointed out, rightfully so, that executing Moussaoui would not have brought their loved ones back. I think that it required more intestinal fortitude to make the decision that these jurors made than to simply call for his head.
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If we executed him, it would have both left him as a martyr to his cause and would have run afoul of American law. He was in custody before September 11th, 2001, and though he was a low-level agent in the planning of those attacks, he was being tried essentially for purposefully withholding information that might have prevented them. I agree that what he did was absolutely despicable, but it wasn't a crime punishable by the death penalty in the US.
Either way, he is no longer a part of the fight against the United States, which is the important part. Many of the family members of people who died on September 11th have also pointed out, rightfully so, that executing Moussaoui would not have brought their loved ones back. I think that it required more intestinal fortitude to make the decision that these jurors made than to simply call for his head.