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2004-10-17 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2004-10-17 12:32:11 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What are the Swiss thinking? Here you have someone that put everyone on the plane in danger, murdered someone in cold blood, and gets out in 17 years. Letting a murderer out on a prison furlough is also insane on the part of the authorities. The Swiss authorities are getting to be as bad as the American judges and parole authorities. This is just another example of the liberal mindset. What about the victims, what about the general public's safety?

The problem is that people like Hariri are broken people, vermin if you like. They are not able to be rehabilitated. Hariri needed an early release, all right, over the Med at 12,000 ft, so he could think about his sins for a good minute before he became crab bait.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-10-17 1:06:34 PM|| 2004-10-17 1:06:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 served 17 years in a Swiss prison for killing a passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant
Excellent nuance here, if we'd just learn to emulate the Swiss.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-17 1:11:30 PM|| 2004-10-17 1:11:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Swiss law allows for max 20 years sentence (what they call "life") no matter what the crime. I'm surprised they kept him for a whole 17.

Don't when the 20y limit was chosen. Should they keep it, at least they could increase by one year for each additional 3mo of average annual increased life expectancy. The last 50 years would have added about 200 to the limit...

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-17 2:39:43 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-10-17 2:39:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Heck, guys, I'm all for repatriating all these poor Muslim souls in European prisons. I'd even volunteer the United States Air Force for the job! Can you imagine how many of them we could stuff aboard a C-5?. Fly them out of Frankfurt to Damascus, by the planeload.

Of course, since the people of Damascus aren't exactly friendly, we may have a problem landing and escorting them off. One of our airplanes might get shot at! I suggest, as a safety factor, that we allow deplaning from 26,000 feet. Just open up the ~~cattle chute~~ cargo ramp, and herd 'em off, possessions and all. Heck, the smart ones might even think to bring a parachute!

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-10-17 7:10:52 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-10-17 7:10:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Switzerland didn't lose a hijacker. ~~Lebanon~~ Hezbollah gained a new national hero.

Kudos to the flight crew.

Posted by ed 2004-10-17 7:16:07 PM|| 2004-10-17 7:16:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 OP, Rather than herd them of like cattle, treat them humanely. After dropping the ramp, simply ascend rapidly to 35,000 feet.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-17 7:28:28 PM|| 2004-10-17 7:28:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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