Shoe Bomber Sentenced - Judge's Words - BRAVO JUDGE WILLIAM YOUNG!

[Lady Liberty]

WE NEED MORE JUDGES LIKE THIS IN AMERICA TODAY!

Shoe Bomber Sentenced - Judge's Words


Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built
into his shoe and tried to light
it?


Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was
sentenced?
Did you see/hear any of the
judge's comments on TV or Radio?
Didn't think
so.!!!
Everyone should hear what the judge
had to say.


Ruling by Judge William Young, US District
Court.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the
defendant if
he had anything to say His response:
After
admitting his guilt to the court for the
record,
Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to
Osama bin
Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of
Allah,'
defiantly stating, 'I think I will not
apologize
for my actions,' and told the court 'I
am at war
with your country.'


Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted
below:


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, 4and 7, the Court sentences
you to
20 years in prison on each count, the
sentence
on each count to run consecutively.
(That's 80 years.)

On count 8 the
Court sentences you to the mandatory 30
years
again, to be served consecutively to the
80
years just imposed. The Court imposes
upon
you for each of the eight counts a fine
of
$250,000 that's an 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 an
$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.

Now, let me explain this to
you. We are not afraid of you or any of

your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr.
Reid.
We are Americans. We have been
through the fire before. There is too
much
war talk here and I say that to everyone
with
the utmost respect. Here in this court,
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 the
officers of
government do it or your attorney does
it, or if
you think you are a soldier, you are
not-----
you are a terrorist. And we do not
negotiate with terrorists. We do not
meet
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've known
warriors. You are a terrorist. A
species
of criminal that is guilty of multiple
attempted
murders. In a very real sense, State
Trooper Santiago had it right when you
first
were taken off that plane and into
custody and
you wondered where the press and the TV
crews
were, and he said: 'You're no big
deal.'

You are no big deal.

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 to us 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, to believe or not believe as we
individually choose. Here, in this
society, the very wind carries freedom.
It
carries 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, have filed
appeals,
will go on in their representation of
you before
other judges.

We Americans are all about
freedom. 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. The
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. And it always
will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand
him down.

So, how much of this Judge's
comments did we hear on our TV sets? We

need more judges like Judge Young.
Pass
this around. Everyone should and needs
to
hear what this fine judge had to say.
Powerful
words that strike home.