Random Thought About Zacarias Moussaoui

Of course everyone’s been voicing their opinion the last few weeks about whether or not Zacarias Moussaoui should have or haven’t been sentenced to death for his part in 9-11 though technically he was in prison on September 11, 2001 and most of the information he had to tell the FBI at the time was in at least one report sitting on one FBI manager’s desk unread.

Personally I haven’t had much to say about it anywhere. Not here. Not around the blogosphere. Not even around the water cooler or at the local Starbucks.

I kind of think he’s crazy. I kind of think he wants to be a martyr and I kind of think he’s a terrorist wanna-be. I don’t really even think he was as important in the 9-11 plot as he makes himself out to be.

However, I know that we as a nation need a scapegoat. I kind of would like that scapegoat to be the real criminal mastermind — Osama. I think that the media and the FBI and the justice system really wanted Moussaoui to be an offering to us for the big screw up that here we are almost five years later and the real terrorists still haven’t had their day in court or even their day on the “battlefield.” The real terrorists are mocking us, toying with us, and we’re trying crazy men who want to be martyrs and heroes for other crazy men.

But the randomest thought, the most interesting thing that I’ve heard in all the snippets I’ve caught about Moussaoui in the last few weeks was a sound byte from a police officer (I think) on the radio who pointed out that we had convicted a man and asked a jury to put him to death simply because he didn’t want to incriminate himself before the crime was committed.

Just something to think about.

tags: Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, terrorism

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