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Explosion at Boston Marathon II

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Elliotte Friedman, Apr 16, 2013.

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  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Apparently he just showed up today and asked to sing:

    https://twitter.com/paulvieira/status/325705303268147201
     
  2. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Read my Facebook status update last night I see...
     
  3. NDJournalist

    NDJournalist Active Member

    Then let that play out in a court of law and read him his rights.
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Either that or cribbed my tweet from last night.
     
  5. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Has kinda been done before.

    [​IMG]

    "IS...IT...SAFE?"
     
  6. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Hope they get the facts right better than they did with Argo.

    And this piece by Charlie Pierce is simply outstanding

    http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/night-in-watertown-cemetery-042013?click=pp

    And now there should be a trial. And not just a trial, but the greatest, fairest trial in the history of trials. The defendant should get the best possible legal assistance money can buy. The "public safety exception" to Miranda should be allowed to expire. He should get the best jury we can empanel and, if we have to move the trial to Guam on account of pre-trial publicity, then godspeed. And then he should be tried and, if convicted, in the greatest, fairest trial in history, he should get shipped off forever to federal prison, never to be heard from again.] .

    God Bless CharliePierce
     
  7. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    One of the best often-overlooked movies ever.
     
  8. AtticusFinch

    AtticusFinch Member

    Pierce, as always, is right on the mark.
     
  9. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Pierce is off the mark. The feds have the death penalty, and this extremist should get it just as quickly as McVeigh got it.
     
  10. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    No, he doesn't deserve his Constitutional rights. But he'll have them, anyway.

    This is America, after all, not the rest of the world, where the things we have here are largely privileges and luxuries.

    And you can be sure all the terrorists -- foreign or domestic -- know it and damn well appreciate that.
     
  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    All he has to do is drop his appeals.
     
  12. AtticusFinch

    AtticusFinch Member

    Moral questions aside, he's legally entitled to his constitutional rights. If that ever changes, our country will have failed.

    The terrorists truly cannot win if we continue to ensure that even the most heinous offenders are due an eminently fair trial.
     
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