Moussaoui’s mom understands

Zacarias Moussaoui is going to be denied his martyrdom, a fitting punishment for a megalomanical, attention seeking craphound. The sentencing judge, Leonie Brinkema, told him to die with a whimper. Good.

At first, it might seem tempting to root for capital punishment, and just be done with him. Upon further investigation, however, a) slowly killing him by scooping out pieces of his flesh with a rusty melon scooper, waiting for him to heal up, and then doing it again until he’s just a pile of bloody pile of maggotty flesh probably qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment and is thus prohibited by our fine Constitution and b) sending him to Supermax for the rest of his life is probably a decent replacement for torture.

Moussaoui doesn’t get it, but his mother does:

Moussaoui’s mother Aicha El Wafi, pressed for her country to intervene. “Now he is going to die in little doses,” she said. “He is going to live like a rat in a hole. What for? They are so cruel.”

Cruel is good. I just added formerspook to my daily reading list because it’s interesting stuff. He had this to say about Moussaoui’s new neighbors:

My personal preference for Moussaoui would be the federal prison in Atlanta, a high security facility where inmates are less isolated. In that environment, the convicted Al Qaida terrorist could (perhaps) meet the business end of a shiv, and save the U.S. taxpayers a lot of money on future incarceration costs..

Almost, but not quite, Mr. formerspook. To refine your thought and mix and match some phrases from Office Space, that no-talent assclown (NTAC, pronounced “en-tack”) should languish in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass (PMITA, as per Fark) prison for about 20 or 30 years before getting the shiv.

Update: Perry on Politics quotes a Chicago Tribune article (not linked due to stupid registration requirements) that interviews several people knowledgable about Supermax prisons. Sounds like it’s pretty harsh, and thus rather fitting for Moussaoui.

In his trial testimony, Aiken said the whole point of Supermax was not just punishment, but “incapacitation.”