Can You Say, "Rosenbergs?"
I thought you could.
The only al Qaeda member currently in custody who had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, Zacharias Moussaoui, is due to go to trial in Virginia soon. Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
But wait a moment. Federal law allows the death penalty if the person was directly involved. Moussaoui was in jail in Minnesota at the time, as I recall.
However, this is the George Bush Administration, where laws can be ignored at whim and the laws modified or "fixed" later to cover up the mess. Depending on the jury, Moussaoui might get death, which will mark the first time that the US Government has ordered someone to die for no reason since the Rosenbergs.
For those of you playing along at home, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair in Sing Sing Prison after being found guilty of treason for supplying nuclear secrets to the Soviets back in the 50s. They were the first Americans executed for treason in peacetime in US history.
This should be interesting, so cook up some popcorn.
The only al Qaeda member currently in custody who had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, Zacharias Moussaoui, is due to go to trial in Virginia soon. Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
But wait a moment. Federal law allows the death penalty if the person was directly involved. Moussaoui was in jail in Minnesota at the time, as I recall.
However, this is the George Bush Administration, where laws can be ignored at whim and the laws modified or "fixed" later to cover up the mess. Depending on the jury, Moussaoui might get death, which will mark the first time that the US Government has ordered someone to die for no reason since the Rosenbergs.
For those of you playing along at home, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair in Sing Sing Prison after being found guilty of treason for supplying nuclear secrets to the Soviets back in the 50s. They were the first Americans executed for treason in peacetime in US history.
This should be interesting, so cook up some popcorn.
posted by Walt at 11:34 AM
5 Comments:
It wouldn't surpise me if they brought back lynching and took the vote away from women, Walt.
Chimp Boy don't need no stinkin' laws. He's on a mission from gawd.
Kill your enemies, and love their oil.
MoMu, glad to see that you're doing better! :-)
And I'm waiting for Judge Lynch to wake up - I think the new Florida "no need to run, go ahead and shoot" law is a harbinger of that. You're right, too, when you say that Bush doesn't need laws - through these signing statements he attaches to bills he can rule largely by fiat, which promises about eleven of the thirty-one flavors of hell.
Why the idiots who support Bush don't start immedaitely having fear-related diarrhea at the thought of a *Democrat* wielding these powers boggles my mind.
Yeah, I hear you. Here's the deal.
His supporters are too busy playing with those little paddles with the rubber balls attached by sting. Those thing are real brain builders.
::LOL::
Why did I get a sudden mental image of Governor LePetomane (Mel Brooks) in the movie "Blazing Saddles?"
That be the ones, Walt.
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