If a foreign nation lands troops on our beaches, we don’t send someone to arrest them and then pass them through the courts. I see someone who has no protection under any treaty ratified by the Senate. I see (in Moussaoui) an enemy of the United States who entered this country to commit an act of terrorism. However, the whole thing could be avoided with regard to terrorism if it were moved outside the criminal justice system. (I also disagree with both the Miranda decision and the cult of precedence…why should our court system preserve incredibly stupid decisions?) I disagree that the Fifth Amendment should have any protection for the omission of action by Moussaoui since constitutional rights don’t give people a pass on trampling the rights of their neighbors. He is entitled to nothing but what he helped give Americans - death. Even so, for you to think that I, as a citizen of U.S., must grant equal rights, to a swine like Moussaoui, that I get myself, is mind-boggling. Suffice it to say, it’s simply tough noodles that he put himself in a lose/lose situation. That switch in position would have sufficed to prevent his execution - though not life in prison, had his information failed to stop 9/11. At any time prior to 9/11, had he revealed what he knew, he would have ceased to be a conspirator and instead would have been an informant. Here are the facts: Up until 9/11 occurred, Moussaoui was, from the criminal law standpoint, only a conspirator. There is no doubt in my mind that he deserves the death penalty and frankly, your legal analysis stinks. It would have been fully right and proper for him to have already faced a firing squad. By all reasonable definitions, he is an enemy agent, a spy and a saboteur. with destructive intent during constructive wartime, while not in uniform. Regarding “The War Dance Around Moussaoui”: Are you out of your bleeping mind? Moussaoui is a non-citizen enemy agent, caught infiltrating the U.S. That is why he faces the death penalty, not for invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination. Moussaoui was found guilty on all counts. § 46502(a)(1)(A) and (a)(2)(B))Ĭonspiracy to Use Weapons of Mass DestructionĬonspiracy to Murder United States Employees The following are the charges specified in the original indictment:Ĭonspiracy to Commit Acts of Terrorism Transcending National Boundaries His trial proved that he was not an accessory to these crimes, but was a principal who would have actively participated in these violations of law except for the fact that he was in police custody for unrelated charges. Said violations subsequently led to the deaths of more than 3,000 people in this country. He is going to be executed for conspiring with 20 other men to violate the laws of the United States of America. Tucker, but Zacarias Moussaoui is not going to be executed for utilizing his Fifth Amendment rights. Misprision of felony, is the like concealment of felony, without giving any degree of maintenance to the felon for if any aid be given him, the party becomes an accessory after the fact. MISPRISION OF FELONY - Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the U.S., conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the U.S.
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