"Tonight we ask was Moussaoui a deluded flakehead or an active collaborator who was himself a genuine threat to US national security." Jon Snow, Channel 4 News, UK. 04 May 2006
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You can guess the verdict. American colleagues on this miserable world: please listen. This guy was a fantasist with a grotesque inferiority complex, almost certainly innocent of anything serious. Yet you plan to jail him for Life without the possibility of Parole.
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Look, I'm a genuine nutter, with years of manic depression behind me. I can tell a goofball a mile off, and this guy is one. Why on earth was he declared "fit to plead" in the first place? Surely the hysteria over 9/11 has tapered off by now. If not, it damn well should have.
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At least one thing Britain's always been is brutal in its own historical blame-game, without being sidetracked by crazies. Blair will, one hopes, be condemned as the warmonger he certainly is, and he might even goto jail for lying.
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The people America should put behind bars mostly belong to the Project for the New American Century. In a world with no baggage, they would be good friends with Al Qu'aeda.
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Speaking of Fascists: here in Britain, the British National Party, an openly racist and fascist political party more than doubled their number of local councillors in the English Local Elections of 04 May. Mind you, they only ended up with 44, total -- out of many thousands of councillors -- but it's still bad. Labour was trounced, the Conservatives improved, the Liberal Democrats (that's me, folks) stayed where they were, having been wrecked by losing their most charismatic leader, Charles Kennedy, to alcohol problems last Christmas.
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It's a bloody and awful world today. Will the next head of the CIA fix that.
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