Now here's a judge we can all be proud of:
U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour said the successful prosecution of Ahmed Ressam should serve not only as a warning to terrorists, but as a statement to the Bush administration about its terrorism-fighting tactics.
"We did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny the defendant the right to counsel," he said. "The message to the world from today's sentencing is that our courts have not abandoned our commitment to the ideals that set our nation apart."
He added that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have made Americans realize they are vulnerable to terrorism and that some believe "this threat renders our Constitution obsolete ... If that view is allowed to prevail, the terrorists will have won."
And who appointed this judge: Ronald Reagan
It just goes to show that today's "conservatives" are nothing more than a bunch of fascist gangsters, and have nothing in common with true patriotic conservatives.
This is the terrorist who was caught by Clinton's people, the guy who wanted to blow up LAX for the millenium celebrations.
It's an example of how our system works, when it's not run by a bunch of crooked idiots.
Here's a link to the story:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/27/state/n235930D68.DTL
If this is a dupe I apologize. I did a search and found nothing.