Chicagoist: Padilla Guilty

guest

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:31:06 -0600

If Jose Padilla did in fact, fill in a "Applicazione to Joina De Mafia" or "Mujahideen Data Form" for Al Qaida, "It is a pretty big leap between a mere indication of desire to attend a camp and a crystallized desire to kill, maim and kidnap." said Peter Marqulies, as quoted by the NYT.

guest

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:30:17 -0600

If Jose Padilla did in fact, fill in a style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.strangefunkidz.com/content/item/21393.html">"Applicazione to Joina De Mafia" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"> or " style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.buffalobeast.com/89/BEAST89websize.pdf">Mujahideen Data Form" for Al Qaida, "It is a pretty big leap between a mere indication of desire to attend a camp and a crystallized desire to kill, maim and kidnap." said Peter Marqulies, as quoted by the href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/us/nationalspecial3/18legal.html?hp">NYT.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:55:59 -0600

Spell check, nothing. The boy needs brain check.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:55:02 -0600

Spell check, nothing. The boy need brain check.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:12:35 -0600

Spellcheck doesn't go far enough. I was going to suggest laying off the cough syrup.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:19:18 -0600

spook - you really need to spellcheck and grammar-check your posts. it doesn't matter what you're spewing - if it reads like klingon, you're not getting your point across. cut and paste from ms word or something. really.

Spook

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:21:42 -0600

p.s have a great time at the air and water show!

Spook

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:21:16 -0600

...."Somehow,I suspect that if he was a white guy from West Virginia plotting to blow up gay bars he wouldn't find any defenders here" Your right Moron, sorry, I mean Guest 5, but from half the country the white "buddy of yours" would be held up as a hero and a defender of the sacred institution of marriage, especially if he blew up a government building. And if he ran into the woods to hide, he would not want for food, because people would leave him four course- red neck- meals by the road side and heck if he was hold up in a farm in Texas with a bunch of kids he raped and allowed to be rapped, and the Federal Government came after him, the federal government would be demonized and he would be called a hero

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:08:16 -0600

11) They didn't get him on the dirty bomb charge as all the evidence gathered was ruled out. So actually, it doesn't "expose" the EC designation. It just shows that this guy was still prosecutable for lesser crimes based on other evidence. so...FAIL.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:42:49 -0600

Are you ever a "one time" member of a gang? I thought he was a Latin King? Anyways, once a king...always a king!

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:13:49 -0600

So much for the federal government's argument that it's impossible to try and convict these guys in regular criminal courts. They just exposed as BS the "enemy combatant" designation of an American civilian.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:12:03 -0600

Super-max would be a walk in the park compared to the years he spent pre-trial in military prison. He was held in solitary, when removed from his cell he was forced to wear blackout goggles, etc.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:37:18 -0600

Guest #5 :"Somehow, I suspect that if he was a white guy from West Virginia plotting to blow up gay bars he wouldn't find any defenders here." Somehow, I suspect if he were a white guy from west virginia you'd care more about his treatment.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:28:34 -0600

He can be John Walker Lindhs roommate....

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:38:47 -0600

Much like Sacco and Vanzetti this dude was probably up to some shady stuff, just not the things with which he was accused. His treatment over the past five years has spit in the eye of common decency and the disregard of his rights as a citizen spits in the eye of justice.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:27:03 -0600

I don't care what you've done--even child rapists deserve the benefits of council and a speedy arraignment. It's (at the VERY least) hypocritical to say that we are denying someone these truly American legal rights, in order to protect American ideology.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:06:10 -0600

ooh the poor baby! He didn't know that plotting jihad was against the law! Somehow, I suspect that if he was a white guy from West Virginia plotting to blow up gay bars he wouldn't find any defenders here.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:51:01 -0600

Denied his rights as an american citizen, held without charge for years, tortured, driven mentally incompetent (aka insane). Whatever he may or may not be guilty of, and the government couldn't even try him for the dirty bomb plot, which was bogus, the people who locked him away for years and tortured him until he lost his mind should be thrown into a supermax for 25 to life as well.

Fancypants1

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:34:45 -0600

good riddance.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:48:15 -0600

Wow, al quaeda takes applications? I wonder if you have to give three references.

guest

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:30:39 -0600

Is he going to SuperMax? I would beg for the death penalty before going there as a prisoner.