MIAMI: Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held as an enemy combatant for three and a half years, has been convicted of terrorism charges. Padilla was originally accused of planning a dirty bomb attack, but was actually convicted of two counts of providing material support to terrorists, and conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim people overseas. The physical evidence leaves little room for doubt. Padilla, a Muslim convert from Chicago, was recruited as a mujahedeen fighter from a south Florida mosque. The CIA recovered his "application" in Afghanistan in 2001. The document contains seven of his ten fingerprints, his birthdate, as well as his foreign language abilities. Sentencing is set for December 5, when Padilla could face a maximum life in prison. In this case the maximum is not enough: Jose Padilla should be executed for his crimes.
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Take a deeper look. This dirtbag attempted to join Al Qaeda, the very same global terrorist network responsible for 9/11. He literally was in the process of committing the dictionary definition of treason in time of war. Were it not for the CIA finding evidence in Afghanistan, there is no estimating how much damage he could have caused or how many thousand or tens of thousand might have been killed and injured. Only legal wrangling and liberal crying kept him out of GITMO where he should have been, facing a military tribunal instead of chatting with his lawyers. The lack of an appropriate sentencing option here is another reason enemy combatants and terrorism suspects should not have access to civilian courts or to legal rights to which they are not entitled.
>The truth is that vehement personal hatred of President Bush drives the thinking of the left. In their zeal to oppose Bush, they often stand against adequate measures desperately needed to fight the war. The Dems have not come to grasp with the broad and unchecked power of the President in time of war. They refuse to accede to that power at every turn because of the current office holder. The resultant political position places them at constant odds with effective war fighting. Their carping and demagogic screed on the issue are nothing less than an attack on the Constitutional authority of the President. Congress has but one power to alter the course of the Iraq front: cut off funding. Short of that, anything less is a propaganda victory for Al Qaeda. The liberal assaults on the authority of the CINC may come to damage the effectiveness of future U.S. Presidents, some of them (unfortunately) Democraps. The end result after all the ridiculous legal maneuvering was a soft civilian trial and now conviction.
>The alternative is sending Padilla to some federal correctional facility to live out his days in relative comfort, communicating with the outside world and serving as a terrorist icon. Better he becomes another martyr for the cause. We're not talking about some wannabe simple mass murder. This involves Al Qaeda, and those convicted of association, coooperation, or actual involvement should be executed ASAP.
>Our enemies are fanatics. There is no reform and no going back. Prison time at an American federal facility is too good for them. American citizens convicted of crimes similar to Padilla are no better than traitorous spys. Killings on the scale imagined be Padilla and his Islamofascist compatriots deserve more punishment than an hour each day in the yard and ice cream on Sundays. He was given his day in civilian courts, and now stands convicted. His punishment should be no less than hanging.
>JINGOCON
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