Judges and terrorists

Just read an interesting news story about a not so recent terror case. Contrary to popular belief, terrorism existed before 9/11/2001. In fact, this scumbag was convicted of trying to bring explosives across the Canadian (damn Canucks) border New Year's Eve 1999. He apparently planned to blow LAX, but was fortunately foiled by incredible luck when border patrol decided to check his trunk and found 124 pounds of stuff to make bombs. However, something interesting came up at his sentencing. The judge decided to make his opinion known that this case proved that the American legal system could handle terrorism cases, and military tribunals and enemy combatant status weren't needed. Then this sack of wuss went out and proved himself wrong.

The suspect was originally cooperative with info, but then he stopped which could jeopardize cases against his co-conspirators. Yet, even though he faced 130 years, the judge gave him 22 with the possibility of parole in 14. That' s for trying to blow up LAX. I guess it could have been 30 if he had actually done it. This is why I don't trust the American justice system. It rewards failure. You'll probably get more time for negligent homicide if you're reckless behavior causes a person's death than if you shot him in the back eight times and he just happened to live. Maybe attempted murder shouldn't call for the same sentence as a successful murder, but it should get more than a few years. This steaming pile of shit tried to blow up an airport. Fourteen years is nothing. If that idiot judge thinks he's competent to handle terrorists after he does that, I have little hope that he could handle a case with successful ones.