Got Justice

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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 you or any of your
terrorist coconspirators, 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 treat 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, 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're no big deal.



What your counsel, 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 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 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 and have filed appeals, 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 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. You know it always will.



Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down.

Rat for Life - Fly till I die
When them stupid ass bitches ask why

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Damn- I got chills.
U.S.A. -still proud to be an American!!!!!!!!

The sole intention, is learning to fly.Condition grounded, but determined to try.Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies.Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit.

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Explanation for Europeans?

Who is this guy?

HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227
“I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.”
- Not quite Oscar Wilde...

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The shoe bomber - he tried to blow up a plane with a shoe filled with explosives but failed partly because his feet were real sweaty and partly because a French guy held him down.

That last bit probably pissed the Yanks off more than the fact that he tried it in the first place.

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That last bit probably pissed the Yanks off more than the fact that he tried it in the first place.

No way, we know how bad french people smell, so we have a little sympathy for the guy being held down by a frenchman.


(for everyone else: that's a joke, unwad your panties and get the humor).

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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That last bit probably pissed the Yanks off more than the fact that he tried it in the first place.

No way, we know how bad french people smell, so we have a little sympathy for the guy being held down by a frenchman.


(for everyone else: that's a joke, unwad your panties and get the humor).

As fun as it is to make fun of those cheese eating surrender monkeys, I must say that I have not yet met a French man I didn't like but then again I've never been to France.

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It's not French people I don't like, it's the damned Parisians.

By and large, they're the ones who give credence to the "cheese-eating surrender monkey" stereotypes.

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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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