Posted by
jarhead on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:54:06 PM
So U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke thinks the detention of Padilla and his fellow cell members was so harsh that it warranted her lightening their sentences. She also took into account that although their avowed purpose is (not was) to kill as many innocent people as possible for Allah they had not actually killed anyone (yet). So her solution to these heart wrenching moral dilemmas is to truncate their sentences so that in 12-15 years, or sooner with good behavior, these animals can be back at the throats of unsuspecting innocents. Good God!
At some point does it not occur to folks, especially those responsible for keeping these vermin away from the useful portions of humanity, that these scum are adherents of a faith, that they will die for that faith and that they certainly will not give up that faith. There will be no rehabilitation in prison. Quite the contrary-in our efforts to afford all prisoners access to the ministers of their faith these cretins will not only be visited by the local prison mullah its highly likely that the mullah will praise them for their martyrdom and exhort them to stay the course so that they can, when they’ve served their sentences, resume their interrupted efforts to massacre for Allah.
These swine did not commit a crime against society the likes of a bank robbery or extortion where the severity of sentence can act to alter a criminal behavior. These are not criminals; they are foot soldiers of a religious fanaticism whose goal is to destroy anything and anyone standing in the way of a world wide caliphate. LISTEN to them-they are not bashful about their goals. The federal court system is not designed to deal with issues of this large a scope and consequences this far reaching. They tend to look at the individual before them as isolated criminals. If we are going to try them in these courts then we must have sentencing guidelines that protect us from narrowly focused and myopic judges.
The sentence for being involved in any Islamic plot to carry out terrorist attacks must be permanent expulsion from human society. If we have no stomach for execution than a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole is the only other recourse. But unleashing this garbage back into humanity to resume its despicable conduct is beyond unconscionable.