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Rarich
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 Posted: 19-Feb-2004 14:12 Post subject: The end of the shoe bomber (terrorist) |
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>Subject: shoe bomber
Remember the shoe bomber awhile after 911? Her is the sentance and judges statement.
JUDGE WILLIAM YOUNG, SENTENCES THE SHOE BOMBER
US District Court Judge William Young made the following statement
in sentencing "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and
deserves to be remembered far longer than he predicts. I commend it to you and anyone you might wish to forward it too.
(I hope you will read every word! Pray for more judges like this
one.)
"January 30, 2003, United States vs.. Reid.
Judge Young: "Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the
Court imposes upon you. On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutive with the other. That's 80 years. On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years consecutive to the 80 years just imposed.
The Court imposes upon you each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 for the aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines. The Court imposes upon you the $800 special assessment.
"The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply
because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further. This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.
"Let me explain this to you: We are not afraid of any of your
terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before.
"There is all too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone
with the utmost respect. Here in this court, where we deal with individuals as individuals, and care for individuals as individuals, as human beings
we reach out for justice, you are not an enemy combatant.
You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether it is the officers of government who do it or your attorney who does it, or that happens to be your view.
"You are a terrorist, and we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow, But you are not that big. You're no warrior, I know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders.
"In a very real sense Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and where the TV crews were and he said you're no big deal.
You are no big deal.
"What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?
"I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I asked you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty, and admit you are guilty of doing. "And I have an answer for you. "It may not satisfy you. But as I search this entire record it comes as close to understanding as I know. It seems to me you hate the one thing that is most precious: You hate our freedom.
"Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, and to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea.
"It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely.
"It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, and will go on in their
representation of you before other judges. We are about it. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. "Make no mistake though: It is yet true that we will bear any burden, pay any price, to preserve our freedoms.
"Look around this courtroom. Mark it well.
"The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here.
Day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten. But this, however, will long endure.
Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice.. Justice, not war. Individual justice is in fact being done.
"The very President of the United States through his officers will
have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged. And juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically - to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice."
"See that flag Mr. Reid?
"That is the flag of the United States of America.That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. It always will."
"Custody, Mr. Officer. Stand him down."
(How much of this Judge's comments did you hear on our TV sets? ZERO! Please pass this around. Everyone needs to hear what the judge had to say.)
[this guy definately has a way with words. I wonder how many people will catch the phrases he used to highlight other applicable things.]
I did some editing to get it more readable from the e-mail message I recieved, forgive any mistakes.
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Oafman
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| Posted: 19-Feb-2004 15:29 Post subject: RE: The end of the shoe bomber (terrorist) |
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can I get an AMEN!!!!
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 20-Feb-2004 06:39 Post subject: RE: The end of the shoe bomber (terrorist) |
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AMEN!!!!
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Oafman
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| Posted: 20-Feb-2004 11:48 Post subject: RE: The end of the shoe bomber (terrorist) |
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*Oafman raises his hands and stomps his feet*
(sorry cannot resist)
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AcidQueen
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| Posted: 19-Mar-2004 06:26 Post subject: RE: The end of the shoe bomber (terrorist) |
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On 2004-02-19 14:12, Rarich wrote:
(How much of this Judge's comments did you hear on our TV sets? ZERO! |
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That's because microphones aren't generally allowed in court in most cases--but that doesn't mean that the comments went unreported.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/31/reid.transcript/
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