Re: Surprise! Moussaoui now says he's not guilty


Bo Raxo wrote:
Carmen wrote:
jonesdl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
The reality of 23 hours a day in a cell with 1 hour out for the rest of
his fucked up life hit him right up top of his egg head. I knew he was
a liar -- now he's telling the whole world, including Bin Laden, he's a
sissy. too!

Most people knew he was a liar, government included. He was a small
fry, nobody Al Quaeda was going to trust with a big assignment or
really important information. Now that he knows he doesn't even get
the appearance of being a martyr for the cause he's a loser all around.
Aw, poor baby.


Yeah, har de har. The government took a mentally ill man - he's so out
of his fucking mind, he was convinced George Bush was going to pardon
him after conviction - and spent millions of yours and my tax dollars
to make a show trial. So they could claim *some* win, however small,
in the war on terrorism.

His trial was a joke - trying to impose the death penalty for *not*
doing something (warning the FBI about the attacks). Letting him
elocute in court to things the prosecutors *knew* were not true (the
Richard Reid connection, first and foremost). The death penalty for
somebody whose number of victims is zero: am I the only one who thinks
even suggesting such a thing is utterly ridiculous?

Oh yeah, laugh at the crazy man. Call him a liar. Tee hee, great fun.
Never mind the ridiculous and expensive circus the government put on,
it's a nice distraction from the bloodbath we have unleashed in Iraq,
our impotence to find a six foot six guy reliant on dialysis who is
hiding out with probable support of our own allies (either in
Afghanistan or Pakistan), the wreckage Porter Goss made at the CIA, our
inability to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 commission (scan
shipping containers? maybe next decade).

Nah, let's turn it in to People Magazine's Least Attractive
Celebrities. 'Cause paranoid whack jobs are hilarious!

The notion that anything remotely approaching reality sets in with
Moussaoui is laughable: he's nuts, utterly nuts, a fact that the press
coverage of his trial went very far to avoid pointing out. I don't
hate the man, I don't ridicule him, I pity him.

Yeah, he deserves to be locked up (though I'm not sure for the rest of
his life). But if you want to laugh, save it for the government that
is so impotent they have to use a crazy little nobody to get themselves
a check mark in the win column.

We differ on our perceptions of Moussaoui's mental health. You've said
above you think he's utterly nuts. I'd have to respectfully disagree.
I think he's somewhat delusional, but that he does have some Al Quaeda
connection - I don't think that's something he's imagining or the
government made up. I think he's a very small fish in that pond and
had no foreknowledge of the Twin Towers attacks. Essentially a go-fer.
I also think that even if he had had foreknowledge of the attacks that
prosecuting him based on his failure to disclose that knowledge is
bull***. Prosecuting him for that was, as you said above, a waste of
time and money.

Moussaoui thinks of himself as more of a player than he really is. He
probably has some form of mental illness, but his sudden snap back to
reality when faced with the prospect of spending the rest of his
natural life largely in isolation in a 7 by 10 foot cell 60 feet
underground was more the action of someone who realizes they just
pushed Dad too far when Dad started to take off his belt. It wasn't
the reaction of a crazy person. He's acting just like the kid who
didn't think Dad would *really* do it when Dad was warning him he was
going to get a strapping, so he kept pushing Dad's buttons. Now he's
trying to do just what a kid in that situation would do, beg for
another chance. *That's* what I find funny. Know what else I find
funny here? The government got its ass handed to it. After all that
time and all that money and all the emotionally wrenching testimony
from families (and Moussaoui being a jackass) they *still* didn't get
the lynching verdict they probably would have sworn they were going to
get. Awwww.

So yes, I find Moussaoui's behavior after finding out he'd been given
life in prison funny. It's because I don't think he's really crazy.

Carmen

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