Killing Things
Jul. 26th, 2005 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fictionalSo Mohammed Bouyeri, the killer of Theo Van Gogh, has been sentenced to life-in-prison. Obviously, this is a good thing. Someone kills someone else, cold-bloodedly, for the stupidest of reasons, exhibits no repentance, and claims that if released, he would do the same thing again. Great. Lock them up, I say.
BUT really. Must the court declare this a terrorist act? Why is it a terrorist act? It's a murder. Singular. Someone killed somebody; they've been caught; they've been sentenced. It is not the job of the judiciary to call this terrorism. It's the job of the judiciary to try them, which they did, and convict them, which they also did. It ends there.
All this other stuff is just fuel for this horrific political fire which threatens to engulf the world. When does it end?
BUT really. Must the court declare this a terrorist act? Why is it a terrorist act? It's a murder. Singular. Someone killed somebody; they've been caught; they've been sentenced. It is not the job of the judiciary to call this terrorism. It's the job of the judiciary to try them, which they did, and convict them, which they also did. It ends there.
All this other stuff is just fuel for this horrific political fire which threatens to engulf the world. When does it end?
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Date: 2005-07-26 08:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-27 05:56 pm (UTC)Well, I was trying to think of something tongue-in-cheekly clever to say to this, and realised that I was nervous about doing so.
I think that might actually be the (much more serious than I intended) answer to your question.