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Sent to my mom from the:
Deputy Clerk
US District Court, Middle District of Florida
Jacksonville Division
JUDGE WILLIAM YOUNG, SENTENCES THE
SHOE BOMBER - A MUST READ! I hope you
will read every word!
Pray for more Judges like this one.
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 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 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, and 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.
Custody Mr. Officer. Stand him down.
How much of this Judge's comments did you hear on
our TV sets? ZERO!
Without Geospacial Intelligence You're Nowhere
Edited by - 30mike-mike on Jul 22 2003 03:15 AM
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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson
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