Shoe Bomber Reid - Why didn't we hear this in the News?

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Posted by Bible Probe on September 22, 2006 at 17:24:41:

Sentence of Reid
*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 or 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 stating, "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. >
"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 consecutively. (That's 80 years.) >
On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years again, to be
served consecutively to the 80 y ears just imposed. The Court imposes upon you
for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 that's an 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 an $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>
Now, 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 too much war talk here and I say that to every-one 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 the officers of government do it or your attorney 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 known 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 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, 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. The 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. God bless America

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