Advocate Eliminating the Death Penalty for a Terrorist
Today Richard Cohen of the Washington Post wrote a column entitled Let Moussaoui Live In the first five paragraphs he almost makes you believe that he has no ulterior motive other than that he doesn't want the world to see Moussaoui as a martyr. And he makes a decent case of it. However, the first five paragraphs are used to bury the actual lead of the story. Cohen is really advocating for the elimination of the death penalty in the United States. He intimates that the U.S. will become another Country to mass murder its citizens; equating us to Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Iraq under Saddam's tyranny, and to the terrorists themselves. He thinks that because capital punishment is still used in the U.S. - and in my opinion not enough - that the U.S. then promotes violence and bloodshed around the world. He draws parallels between the mass killing of innocent people, to the laws regulating the implementation of capital punishment in America. He also thinks that putting a terrorist to death will "finally close the book on [Osama Bin Laden's] most successful mission."I believe this is a blatant attempt to help and victimize a terrorist. I don't think that Richard Cohen understands what it takes to keep this Country safe. He sees anyone who commits heinous acts as someone who needs protection. However, he can't just say that. He needs to talk around it, and give excuses that he deems acceptable to the public, to state his opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with his opinion and his methods. As we see so often in the MSM, doublespeak and rhetoric come before honestly. Zacarias Moussaoui was capable of giving the Feds information that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. He didn't. For that he has the lives of almost 3,000 people on his hands. For that, he deserves to die.
posted by Snowbird @ 11:32 AM
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