The below is from a news article.

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.

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   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:

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 on20each 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=2 0consecutively 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< /span>.

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 terro rist 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 t errorist.  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 kn ow.

It see ms 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, individua l 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 refin e our sense of justice.

See that flag, Mr. Reid?  That's the flag of the United S tates 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, but that's another subject.  Pass this around.  Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.  God Bless America

We taxpaying citizens are fed up with the politicians who keep expanding government, spending recklessly and then ask for more of our hard-earned money.  Government officials at the local, state, and federal levels are acting like fiscal dictators.  They are expanding government services beyond what is intended for their own pork issues, not what is required by the Constitution. 

The energy and displeasure of the millions attending the tea parties across the nation must translate into votes and replace all of the liberal-spending bums at every level of government.  The fiscal conservative movement is alive.  There must be spending and term limits for the US Congress.

From the park fronting the White House to the California coast, tens of thousands of protesters staged anti-tax "tea parties" to mark tax-filing day and attack the Obama administration's spending plans.  President Obama said that he was unaware of the "tea party" protests.  Really?  Yet he is aware of the DHS memo saying that right wing conservatives are a threat to the nation.  How about all of the illegal immigrants who are responsible for murder, ID theft, crime, drugs, gangs, and destroying our schools and medical system?

"We got tired of just talking about it around our kitchen table and thought maybe we should step out and do something," said Susan Fisher, 34, who made the 30-mile trek to the D.C. rally from Woodbine, Md., with her 4-year-old daughter, Audrey. "We've got to make ends meet and we're all cutting back, but the government isn't."

Conservatives touted the tea parties as the beginning of a grass-roots movement that could change the debate on taxes and spending in Washington.  But liberals scoffed at the notion, accusing Republicans activists and conservative media outlets of underwriting and staging the gatherings.  What do they call the marches by illegal immigrants on our streets who wave the Mexican flag?

The tea parties were organized by a grass-roots movement because we are mad at elected officials and the out-of-control spending by the US Congress and the Obama administration.

The University of Maryland is out of touch with the tax paying citizens that support the university.  In the same week the university allowed a XXX Porn film to be shown on the campus and then deleted innovaction from its agenda.  Our society is based on good Christian values, not porn.  I am recommending that parents and supporters and donors to the university push back on the President of the university and stop this crazy reversal of society standards.