As were his two co-defendants. I would hope Supermax Prison is in their future, so they can experience that living hell for the rest of their pathetic lives.
I was nervous about this verdict, considering juries can be known for having arrived on the short bus, but in this instance, they arrived at the right verdict in just a day and a half. Good for them and good for us. Now getting some big fish would be nice. Our assault on Tora Bora yesterday and today is nice, just about 6 years late, though.
Padilla Is Convicted in Terrorism Case
Jose Padilla was convicted of federal terrorism support charges Thursday after being held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant in a case that came to symbolize the Bush administration’s zeal to stop homegrown terror.
Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi face possible sentences of life in prison if convicted of all three charges in the case.
The three are accused of being part of a North American support cell that provided supplies, money and recruits to groups of Islamic extremists. The defense contended they were trying to help persecuted Muslims in war zones with relief and humanitarian aid.
…sigh…
Now we have 30+ years of appeals…
I will wait to comment until after he’s out on the good behavior / early release program, or is pardoned, or has his sentance commuted, and then disappears into the general populace…
Is it just me, or am I overly cynical?
It’s not just you.
You’re not alone John. What’s better still is the impending lawsuit that says if he were white and an al-qaeda member this would not be happening. I’m sure there is a sympathetic (and pathetic) hippie judge just waiting to award him 25 million buckeroos for his “societal trauma”. If this were WW2, he would have received 45 caliber justice from the weapon of a superior officer, and I do mean superior in every sense of the word.
Finally, a jury that “gets it.” Now the appeasers will start bleating everything from “ineffective counsel,” to “railroaded.” But if the prosecuters could obtain a warranted, and obviously valid in the jurors’ minds (1 & 1/2 hours of deliberation – Wow!) verdict of guilty on all counts, with what I understand was an entirely circumstantial case, that’s tremendously good work!
And this case more than effectively illustrates that the war against Islamofascism belongs on the battlefield, not in the courtroom. The former means action and resolution; the latter means stagnation and ultimate defeat at the hands of an enemy that wants to kill us, and nothing less.
On the battlefield, as well, the appeasers can’t get much of a say; in the courtroom, they can wax eloquent all they want (and boy, do they want!), spinning reasonable government action into pure McCarthyism (which was actually something bad, in their minds). In 25 years of practice, I’ve never met a lawyer that didn’t love the sound of his or her own voice — let’s keep the fight where it belongs: on the enemy’s home ground, not ours, and in places where we can kill them, not coddle them.