Sniper Update: So Much For My Profiling Career...

JmpnJckFlsh · 10-24-2002, 10:56 AM

They grabbed two guys; not white, but black sympathizers with Al-Queda. They think they have the shooters and they think have the weapon. Git a rope...

JohnZ · 10-24-2002, 02:48 PM

The ACLU and the left-wing bleeding-heart liberal freakos will get there long before anyone with a rope ("Oh, his military service is responsible for his attitude", "The boy is just a poor, underprivileged Jamaican who grew up in poverty"), blahblahblah. I can see it all coming, with not one word about the dead and wounded victims. Can I be "King" this week? :jester

67HEAVEN · 10-24-2002, 03:29 PM

All I can say is thank God they caught these bastiches and that they DIDN'T cross the border from Canada. :crazy:

Hang 'em high and let the buzzards pick the bones. :smash:

Chuck Gongloff · 10-24-2002, 04:55 PM

I'm just glad it's over. I don't get into the DC area often, but my wife goes down there 2-3 times per month with her job. She was down there all day yesterday. I was worried till she got home. Chuck

JmpnJckFlsh · 10-24-2002, 04:59 PM

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The ACLU and the left-wing bleeding-heart liberal freakos will get there long before anyone with a rope...

Uh oh...Seems like Maryland has a moratorium on the death penalty since May courtesy of the Demo candidate for governor Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend. Seems like there is a concern they may execute the wrong people. You voters in Maryland should know what to do. :D :D

10-24-2002, 08:12 PM

Chuck, I heard on the radio this afternoon that the State of Maryland gets to put them on trial first, where they will probably get life with no parole. Then Virginia gets to put them on trial, and I think they are second only to Texas in the amount of executions annually. :smash: :smash: :smash:

As for your profiling career, the story below from the Washington Post was written by a staff writer on Tuesday and not published until yesterday morning, when we still didn't know who the snipers were. As of today, it looks like his profiling story was almost right on the money!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Oct22.html

John McGraw · 10-24-2002, 09:46 PM

John,
I think that a fitting punishment would be to paint a bullseye on them and turn them loose!
:mad :mad :mad

10-24-2002, 09:56 PM

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Can I be "King" this week? :jester

No, but you can be Reverend Al Sharpton!! :lol:

Mag Red Man · 10-24-2002, 11:02 PM

I believe they will be eligable to Fry, seeing how they will be under Federal charges since they crossed state lines.

Grey Ghost · 10-24-2002, 11:49 PM

Fry them ! It is also reported the younger one shot two women from behind in a liquor store holdup in Alabama. One died and one lived.
I'm an eye for an eye type of person.

Mac · 10-25-2002, 02:31 AM

As I've stated before, I am an advocate of capital punishment but I find it distasteful to read others panting for blood. Capitol punishment should never be an act of anger or revenge. It must be a calculated and appropriate response to the circumstances. To make capitol punishment an act of anger or revenge lessens our civilization and our society.

If Williams-Mohammad and his stepson are proven by due process to be the killers, in my humble opinion, they have given up their right to live by their actions in taking the lives of others. Anything that they could contribute to society could not be worth the cost (both social and financial) of keeping them alive and imprisoned for life. It would be cruel and dangerous to imprison them for life as they will remain a danger to society as long as they live.

My fellow Forum friends, it is not wrong to feel angry and outraged by these heinous crimes but it never appropriate to allow such emotions to control our behaviour and response.

I'm done preachin' now. Don't forget the offertory on your way out!!

John McGraw · 10-25-2002, 12:19 PM

Mac,
I agree with the death penalty, but from the purely financial aspect it has been proven that it is cheaper to keep a person in prison than to execute them! given the cost to maintain a person on death row for years as well as all the state-paid appeals, it is incredibly expensive to execute someone in the US.
That being said, one need only look as far as Kenneth Allen McDuff to see what happens when you put someone in prision for life! Sooner or later, everyone forgets what a monster he really is and lets him out. McDuff was sentenced to death, and then the Supreme Court struck down The Texas death penalty as being unconstitutional. His sentence was changed to life in prision, and sure enough he was released a few years later. He went on a killing spree and one of the victims was a young lady with who I was aquainted with. There is much debate as to whether the death penalty is a deterent, to that I say that with the death peanlty, at least there is one killer who won't kill again! I do not think that the death penalty serves as a deterent since people that commit such crimes are truly physcotic killers who give not thoughts to the consequences of their actions. The death peanlty serves only to protect us from such animals!

:seeya

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