Deceptively Framing The Moussaoui Death Penalty Debate
April 24th, 2006 at 1:13 pm by SmantixThe al-AP is trying it’s damndest to save would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui so that attorneys can have a lifetime of appeals to fight and have him released on some specious anti-PATRIOT Act allegations a decade or two from now. And while not totally unexpected, it’s the immoral relevancy and outright repugnancy of their anti-death penalty/pro-terrorist bias that has them framing the story the way they do.
Defense Asks to Deny Moussaoui Martyrdom
Zacarias Moussaoui’s lawyer pleaded with jurors Monday to send his client to prison for life — “the long slow death of a common criminal” — rather than give him the martyrdom he seeks through execution.
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The prosecutor pointed out how Moussaoui mocked the testimony of Sept. 11 victims and their families throughout the trial. “The defendant rejoices in all that pain,” he said. “He told you that himself.”Raskin went on: “He loved it because he was responsible for it. He loved it because it meant to him, mission accomplished.”
Defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin said Moussaoui’s contempt for the victims and the trial “is proof that he wants you to sentence him to death. He is baiting you into it. He came to America to die in jihad and you are his last chance.”
And this is why a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean is a good start. Zerkin falls back on his “blame America” credentials for why Moussaoui shall achieve “martyrdom”. His “if you fall for his ruse you’re just as bad as them” courtside IED of logic.
But back to al-AP. Giving Moussaoui the death penalty after a criminal trial is not granting him martyrdom.
It is granting justice to the victims of September 11th.
So let’s re-write that headline. “Defense Seeks to Deny Justice to September 11th Victims”.
Call it what it is.
UPDATE: As close to correction as one can expect.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
How anyone can pay the least amount of attention to Moussaoui’s trial and conclude that he was anything more than a perverted wannabee is beyond comprehension.
Everyone wants justice for the victims of September 11th, but killing Moussaoui will not achieve that. The only connection between this miserable excuse for a human being and 9/11 is in his own deluded brain.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
I say we take him at his word and lop his head off with a wheat sickle. But that’s just me.
I say martyr him in a brutal fashion and bury him with an entire ham.
April 24th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
I like the ham idea.
Or feed him to a herd of pigs.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Fricking AP. I didn’t screenshot it and they changed the headline.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Kill the SOB, soak the body in Old Rotgut for a week and use him as the charcoal for a pig roast.
Then pour 2 year old Schlitz to put out the flames.
Then bury him with a ham.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:32 am
Let’s test the defense’s theory ASAP. Granted, there’s that infinitesimally slight risk that fanatical jihadists might be prone to violence and do something crazy after punishment is meted out… like the unheard of exercise of piloting innocents in a floating bomb into massive buildings; but, that’s a risk I’m willing to take. Anyone have spare pom-poms?
Mar-tyr! Mar-tyr! Mar-tyr!
April 25th, 2006 at 1:40 am
Drown him in a pool of piggy blood and feces.
April 25th, 2006 at 8:46 am
“… fanatical jihadists might be prone to violence and do something crazy after punishment is meted out …”
Finatical jihadists don’t give a rat’s ass about this moron. Weren’t you paying attention during the trial? They wanted nothing to do with him.
He claimed to be part of things after the fact, and those with whom he claimed kinship couldn’t disavow him fast enough.
The worst thing that can truthfully be said about him is that he is a lying sack of shit.
But go ahead. Indulge your fantasies. Waste your energies on a red herring wannabee. But don’t kid yourself. This is not justice for the victims of 9/11.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Deal! Real justice will be when we can string up some of the Donks who let them run wild through the US after attacking the World Trade Center the first time.
April 25th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
jbl1955 — Tuesday, April 25, 2006 @ 8:46 am
Finatical jihadists don’t give a rat’s ass about this moron. Weren’t you paying attention during the trial? They wanted nothing to do with him.
Just like radical jihadists didn’t care about the select 19 morons either. Weren’t you paying attention to OBL and cronies in their video laughing it up over falafel dinner upon hearing of their “success”?
He claimed to be part of things after the fact, and those with whom he claimed kinship couldn’t disavow him fast enough.
Yeah, it probably doesn’t look good to have such an idiot representing the cause. I’d be looking to dissociate from the incompetant loon too. These failed jihadists tend to cut down on recruitment. On the upside, it spares some virgins of their unenviable duties.
The worst thing that can truthfully be said about him is that he is a lying sack of shit.
Well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I can think of a lot of worse things that could be said of the none-to-soon-to-be-deceased. I’m just wondering who will volunteer to p*** on the guy’s ashes when justice sets this sack ablaze. I wouldn’t want anyone wasting good p***.
Waste your energies on a red herring wannabee. But don’t kid yourself. This is not justice for the victims of 9/11.
A “red-herring wannabe”? I’m not sure what that is, but I’ll not shed a tear for this land-fill soontobe. And it is justice for the victims… one ex-jihadi at a time.
But your insight gives me comfort nonetheless. If he has been disowned by the clan, we won’t need to worry about his martyrdom. Get rid of the great unwashed jihadi and suffer zero blowback. It’s win-win!