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Judge Young & the shoe bomber

thcri

Gone But Not Forgotten
This has been passed around a few times and it came across my desk again. So I thought I would post it here for all to see. Good reading and we need more action like this.


Start here,

Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and
tried to light it?

Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was sentenced?
Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV/Radio?
Didn't think so.


Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had
anything to say.

His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record,
Reid also admitted his "allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the
religion of Allah," defiantly stated "I think I will not apologize for my
actions," and told the court "I am at war with your country."

Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:

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 sentene 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 you or 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, 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 if
you think you are a soldier. You are not----- you are a terrorist .

And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet 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've know warriors.
You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple
attempted murders.

In a very real sense, State 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 ask 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 to us 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, to believe or not believe as we individually
choose.

Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries 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 and have filed appeals, will go
on in their representation of you before other judges.

We Americans are all about freedom.

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 bare 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's the flag of the United States of America.

That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag
stands for freedom. And it always will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down.



So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV sets?



We need more judges like Judge Young, but that's another subject.
Pass this around.

Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say.
Powerful words that strike home.
 

HarryG

New member
If this judge actually spoke these words I commend him. Its about time these scumbags are treated as the terrosits they are. :applause:
 
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