Cha Cha
August 25th, 2003, 01:22 AM
This came in my E-mail and I thought it was worth the read.:thumb
Subject: VERDICT
>
> Remember Reid, the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his
> shoe and tried to light it? His trial is over.
>
> How much of the judge's comments did you hear on TV? Everyone should
> hear what the judge had to say. Judge William Young U.S. District
> Court Judge William Young made the following statement in sentencing
> "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and deserves to
> be remembered far longer than he predicts. I commend it to you and to
> anyone you might wish to forward it to.
> This is verbatim.
>
> 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 any of your terrorist co-conspirators, 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 Trooper Santigo 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, 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 bear 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.
>
:clap
Subject: VERDICT
>
> Remember Reid, the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his
> shoe and tried to light it? His trial is over.
>
> How much of the judge's comments did you hear on TV? Everyone should
> hear what the judge had to say. Judge William Young U.S. District
> Court Judge William Young made the following statement in sentencing
> "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and deserves to
> be remembered far longer than he predicts. I commend it to you and to
> anyone you might wish to forward it to.
> This is verbatim.
>
> 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 any of your terrorist co-conspirators, 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 Trooper Santigo 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, 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 bear 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.
>
:clap