Foxyangel0425
08-07-2003, 03:38 AM
> Subject: US vs. Reid
>
>
> Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb
> built into his shoe and tried to light it? His trial
> is over.
>
> How much of this Judge's comments did you hear on
> TV?
> Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
>
> Ruling by Judge William Young
>
> U.S. District Court Judge William Young made the
> following statement in sentencing "shoe bomber"
> Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and
> deserves to be remembered far longer than he
> predicts. I commend it to you and to anyone you
> might wish to forward it to.
>
> January 30, 2003 United States vs. Reid. 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, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to
> 20 years in
> prison on each count, the sentence on each count to
> run consecutive
> with the other. That's 80 years.
>
> On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory
> 30 years
> consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court
> imposes upon you each of the eight counts a fine of
> $250,000 for the 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 the $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.
> Let me explain
> this to you.
>
> We are not afraid of any of your terrorist
> co-conspirators, Mr. Reid.
> We are Americans. We have been through the fire
> before. There is all
> too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone
> with the utmost
> respect.
>
> Here in this court, where 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 it is the officers of government who do it
> or your attorney
> who does it, or that happens to be your view, you
> are a terrorist.
>
> And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not
> treat 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 know
> warriors. You are
> a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of
> multiple attempted murders.
>
> In a very real sense Trooper Santigo had it right
> when you first were
> taken off that plane and into custody and you
> wondered where the
> press and where the TV crews were and he said you're
> no big deal.
> You're no big deal.
>
> What your counsel, 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 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 winds carry freedom.
> They carry 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 and have filed appeals, will go on in
> their, their
> representation of you before other judges. We are
> about it. 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. 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. You know it always
> will.
>
> Custody Mr. Officer. Stand him down.
>
>
> Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb
> built into his shoe and tried to light it? His trial
> is over.
>
> How much of this Judge's comments did you hear on
> TV?
> Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
>
> Ruling by Judge William Young
>
> U.S. District Court Judge William Young made the
> following statement in sentencing "shoe bomber"
> Richard Reid to prison. It is noteworthy, and
> deserves to be remembered far longer than he
> predicts. I commend it to you and to anyone you
> might wish to forward it to.
>
> January 30, 2003 United States vs. Reid. 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, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to
> 20 years in
> prison on each count, the sentence on each count to
> run consecutive
> with the other. That's 80 years.
>
> On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory
> 30 years
> consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court
> imposes upon you each of the eight counts a fine of
> $250,000 for the 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 the $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.
> Let me explain
> this to you.
>
> We are not afraid of any of your terrorist
> co-conspirators, Mr. Reid.
> We are Americans. We have been through the fire
> before. There is all
> too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone
> with the utmost
> respect.
>
> Here in this court, where 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 it is the officers of government who do it
> or your attorney
> who does it, or that happens to be your view, you
> are a terrorist.
>
> And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not
> treat 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 know
> warriors. You are
> a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of
> multiple attempted murders.
>
> In a very real sense Trooper Santigo had it right
> when you first were
> taken off that plane and into custody and you
> wondered where the
> press and where the TV crews were and he said you're
> no big deal.
> You're no big deal.
>
> What your counsel, 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 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 winds carry freedom.
> They carry 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 and have filed appeals, will go on in
> their, their
> representation of you before other judges. We are
> about it. 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. 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. You know it always
> will.
>
> Custody Mr. Officer. Stand him down.