The government says that the signature on that Al-Qaeda application is in his handwriting. "Padilla trained as 'jihad' fighter: US prosecutor," by Patrick Moser for AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
MIAMI (AFP) - The trial of US terror suspect Jose Padilla got under way Monday with the prosecution claiming he trained in Afghanistan to become an Al-Qaeda fighter, and the defense insisting the former Chicago gang member stands wrongly accused.In his opening statements in the Miami courtroom, prosecutor Brian Frazier made no mention of the radioactive bomb plot that was cited when Padilla was arrested and placed in military detention in 2002 but that does not figure in the indictment.
Frazier told the 12 jurors that Padilla and two co-accused were fully aware that "the central mission of Al-Qaeda was the destruction of the United States and other countries" and took "concrete steps to support and promote this violence."
But defense lawyer Anthony Natale insisted the government had no case against his client.
"Jose was not a member of any support cell because there wasn't one. He did not commit violence. There were no victims, real or imaginary," Natale told the jurors.
Keep calling him by the name HE CHOSE for himself, Abu Abdallah al-Muhair. The MSM's insistence on referring to him as 'Jose Padilla' is as grotesque as discussing 'the famous boxer Cassius Clay'.
The workings of the PC multi-culturalist self-hating mind are so transparently sick it's like watching an obsessive-compulsive stepping over sidewalk cracks and turning doorknobs with a handkerchief.
"Jose was not a member of any support cell because there wasn't one. He did not commit violence. There were no victims, real or imaginary," Natale told the jurors.
This, in a nutshell, is the problem we face with every would-be jihadist.
If you can punish terrorists only if they have killed someone, you should have plenty of body bags ready for use....
"were simply assisting oppressed Muslims in war-torn regions and that Padilla, 36, was a peaceful Islamic convert interesting in studying his religion overseas."
The above quote is from his defense lawyers.
See, it is about the religion.
Hang him high and hang him long. Let's criminalize treason again.
He could have got paid to do this at Kent State.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015534.php
Treason should be an automatic capital offence; no excuses… as said hang ‘em high! Sadly, our leftists would whine and whinge; mortified that we dare kill someone who kills or is bent on killing Americans and others.
There are many Americans, amongst us, whom feel this way. Some, if not many, are in our government and other vital institutions. Then, there is the self-anointing mass-media and those of their seditious like, who paint the War on Terror as America’s shame.
Ironically, if we lose this war, it will be the self-anointed whom will first be beheaded and shot. In the end, however, as much as I would like to witness this, it wouldn’t be worth the price we would have to pay.
What would Thomas Jefferson say?
What would John Adams do?
What did they say and do about the Barbary Pirates out of Tripoli?
What, if anything, distinguishes the world view & ideology of the Tripoli pirates from the adopted world view of Abu Abdallah al-Muhajir (Jose Padilla)?
"What would Thomas Jefferson say?
What would John Adams do?
...Tom should have said ban Muslim Immigration!..
..John should have banned Muslim Immigration...
..John should have banned Muslim Immigration...
Sure, but Teddy and his brother Bobby would have lifted the ban in 1965 anyway. That was our first taste of "comprehensive immigration reform".
Now Teddy's about to serve us the second course.
If he does, WE'll be the second course.
Our country's already being devoured first.