Well, once again I'm completed disappointed in the American justice system, and am more convinced than ever that we need to have professional, trained well-paid jurors. (They can be paid out of the LARGE sums of tax dollars generated from gasoline sales everyday.) Of course, I'm referring to the sentencing in the trial of 9/11 Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui yesterday. The same jury that only a month ago found Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty decided yesterday to sentence him to life in prison instead. How they got from point A to point B is beyond me.
Oh yeah....in case that wasn't bad enough, the Pirates lost....again. Ian Snell pitched a relatively solid 5 2/3 innings against his boyhood idol, Pedro Martinez, striking out NINE Mets, but gave up three runs. The Pirates scored twice to tie it up with two outs in the ninth inning to force extra frames. Three pitches into the Mets' half of the twelfth inning, the leadoff batter planted a Mike Gonzalez pitch firmly into the outfield seats for a walk-off home run. To add to the disappointment, the home run was hit by Carlos Delgado, the man who historically has refused to stand with thousands of fans, players, coaches, and umpires during the playing of "God Bless America" at ballgames, because of his opposition to the war in Iraq. Why, oh why, must someone stoop to politicizing BASEBALL?!?!?
What is this world coming to?
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Now,since my gracious brother in law said it, I will look less like a flaming liberal for saying it!
If you kill this guy, this is what he wants if he really is a Muslim extremist.
D can't remember who said it, but in response to his sentencing:
"Instead of being a martyr, he's going to die with a whimper"
I firmly believe that you guys are dead wrong on this one. This man needed to be executed in a public forum (they should have broadcast it on network TV in primetime during sweeps week) and it needed to happen in a slow, painful manner (maybe beat him to death with Michael Moore books...or just with Michael Moore). All we accomplished here was to demonstrate to the entire world that we are weak on terrorism. As we've now heard, this monster is actually now trying to REVERSE HIS PLEA to not guilty, and from what I've heard and read, there is a remote possibility that he could be allowed to do so, which leads to the remote possibility that he could go free. This was a mistake, and those jurors ought to be ashamed of themselves.
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