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2007-08-16 Home Front: WoT
Padilla guilty on all counts
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Posted by  2007-08-16 14:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 The liberals are going crazy about this. They were cursing and moaning on a chat system I hang out on. Someone announced it, and the replies were "fuck", "KANGAROO COURT", "i dunno...if the us had such a great case against him...why did it take 5 years to bring it to court?", and "If they got jurors to beleive that, just imagine what else he did!" It's amazing to see people not only 1) Refuse to acknowledge this guy joined AQ and 2) Display dismay at the fact that he was convicted.
Posted by gromky 2007-08-16 14:46||   2007-08-16 14:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Padilla's attorneys said he traveled to Egypt in September 1998 to learn Islam more deeply and become fluent in Arabic. "His intent was to study, not to murder," said Padilla attorney Michael Caruso.

I guess Pakistan must've been closed that day?
Enjoy Florence, kid. Say hello to Zack and The Matchbook Kid.
Posted by tu3031 2007-08-16 14:54||   2007-08-16 14:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Enjoy Florence, kid.

NOBODY enjoys Florence. I need to get some photos and post 'em here for people to see. Well, if he liked Egypt, he'll "like" the weather in Florence - hot enough in the summertime to fry eggs, cold enough in the wintertime to make popsickles - outside. Of course, he won't see much of that - maybe an hour a day, every other day. Even the GUARDS hate it there.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-08-16 15:29|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-08-16 15:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The libs are going completely ape-s**t. I love it. Max in a max, and liberal knickers going into knots.

Life is good.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-08-16 15:37||   2007-08-16 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Most of the conversations were in Arabic and purportedly used code such as "tourism" and "football" for violent jihad or "zucchini" and "eggplant" instead of military weapons or ammunition.

I imagine the conversations went something like this:

"Have you received the zucchini and eggplant I shipped you."

"Yes, curse your moustache! I ordered fragmentation zucchini and thirty caliber eggplant, and here you have sent me white phosporus zucchini and five point five six milimeter eggplant. I am so angry I could put a nine millimeter eggplant between your eyes."

"A thousand pardons, efendi! I will correct this at once. You will get your eggplant and zucchini in time for football season."

"Can you throw in some of those 'Bouncing Betty,' you know, what do you call them?"

"Ah--breast implants?"

"Yes. A dozen of those."
Posted by Mike 2007-08-16 15:49||   2007-08-16 15:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Nice job, Padildo. Hope you enjoy prison.
Posted by Unique Battle 2007-08-16 15:50||   2007-08-16 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7 At least at Florence he won't have much of a chance to radicalize anyone else. Or talk to anybody for that matter.
Posted by Rambler">Rambler  2007-08-16 15:52||   2007-08-16 15:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Their life sentences had better be "life" without possibility of parole. It's long past tea to begin making sure that anyone contemplating terrorist activity knows their ass will be locked away forever.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-08-16 16:00||   2007-08-16 16:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Olde Yuma would have been better for Padilla...

circa 1880-1890 trade school

<;-)
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-08-16 16:11||   2007-08-16 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Good one Mike -- I had to read that to a couple of folks
Posted by Sherry">Sherry  2007-08-16 16:28||   2007-08-16 16:28|| Front Page Top

#11 ...in a case that came to symbolize the Bush administration's zeal duty to stop homegrown terror.

Fixed it for ya...

/What the fuck is this, AP - 'news analysis' time?
Posted by Raj 2007-08-16 19:24||   2007-08-16 19:24|| Front Page Top

#12 The left today is defined by what its against and not what its for.
Posted by Jise Snoluper9807 2007-08-16 19:24||   2007-08-16 19:24|| Front Page Top

#13 IIRC his atty had complained that Padilla had turned into a vegetable during his horrible solitary incarceration. If so, his life sentence should be short and cheap: one season, miracle gro and water, til harvesting, then rototilling
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-08-16 20:18||   2007-08-16 20:18|| Front Page Top

#14 The left today is defined by what its against and not what its for.

Yup. And if they DID come right out and tell us what they were for, the majority of Americans would be horrified. Well, in between episodes of American Idol, anyhow.
Posted by eLarson 2007-08-16 21:46|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-08-16 21:46|| Front Page Top

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