Ted Rall for May 07, 2010

We can’t risk it… lock up Brad Pitt now!

Cute uber alles.

This cute will be in jail for the rest of his worthless sick sad life.

Faisal, if anyone in prison tells you that you have a pretty mouth do NOT take it as a compliment!

Of course, succeeding at killing lots of people tends to increase the viciousness of treatment, while being an incompetent boob makes one the butt of jokes too.

“Now, continue to do the right thing and give him a trial by a jury of his peers.”

Woah woah woah… don’t empower this terrrist [sic] by giving them a trial of his peers. That’ll give him an avenue to preach his hate speech which will empower terrrists [sic] everywhere. Waterboard this guy now!

^ Wow… plenty of far right evangelical Christian wingnuts fit that description, too. Dr. Tiller’s murder and the constant death/bomb threats on legal facilities for women are easily evidence to that effect.

It’s how people choose to interpret the text (in both Christianity and Islam). Extremity will always depend on the individual. If we were going off of propensity for violence we’d all end up being Buddhist monks or something. Not that they’ve never ever had war, however.

the above comments seem to come from persons who are not keeping up on the facts coming out about Faisal. You may have to read between the lines of a fawning press, but this man was a “suspect” who was caught in 1999 bringing into the USA a $80,000 “courier delivery” to someone, sent by other someones! Put 2 and 2 together and say “planned terror”….and “a willing and radical future terrorist” in an early stage!

latest facts…he was a “fan” of a radical and “wanted” cleric who agitates for terrorism on the internet….he is Muslim, and you seem to be ignorant that Mohammad himself set the pattern of using the SWORD and MURDER to spread that religion…a Koran and prayer beads were left in his apartment when he was tipped off by NEWS REPORTS that the authorities were looking for a Pakistani suspect, and he fled.

He seems to be doing a lot of talking, since arrested, and admitted he was trained to make bombs, in Pakistan. For an “unemployed” man who QUIT HIS JOB….he traveled many times between the US and Pakistan, an expensive thing….how did he afford it? And didn’t he pay CASH for the plane ticket?

do you people pull the wool over your own eyes?

P.S. the “system” did not work. If the bomb had worked, it went off when many Americans were nearby. A private citizen reported the smoking car. The “no-fly” list did not alert the airline whose plane he was in, ready to take off…only an alert person who read the passenger list noticed a name that was suspect…. IMO the “authorities” failed 100%

That’s the existential threat that requires spending more than 1 trillion dollars per year; incompetent buffoons who can’t assemble a bomb a smart middle schooler could put together. Remember, all fear all the time.

he was just about to turn his life around……and become a Christian.

“Mohammad himself set the pattern of using the SWORD and MURDER to spread that religion”

So did many a Pope.

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, People will forgive you if you’re cute.

Plus, it always helps when you liberally apply Nair to all those unsightly hair splotches.

Good PR and a heavy-duty bottle of Nair: what every Middle Eastern terrorist wannabe needs to succeed.

And inflammable fertilizer, don’t forget the inflammable fertilizer!

disgustedtaxpayer,

What’s the source of your information?

senorbullwinkle… “blink, blink”

@bradwilliams - It’s Okay for Christians [and Catholics] to commit violence and terrorism against people they do not agree with because this is America. *

Jade; I was actually thinking of European history, but I take your point.

I’m glad people make fun of that guy.

Arrest any nut from any religion, he’ll claim he’s persecuted by Satan. Kill him, people will think he’s happy in Heaven, but ridicule him, and you finally succeed at taking some of his power away.

Their boosters worship them, their ennemies fear them. You don’t worship or fear something that makes you laugh.

“I was actually thinking of European history, but I take your point.”

Like burning witches and gay people?

So making an issue out of nothing? Who is fawning over this guy? Who doesn’t want to see him get punished (because he’s cute??)? Getting all riled up (and trying to make others angry) for the sake of just getting angry?

I can’t tell if Rall truly believes the comics he draws or if he is being so subtle and so sarcastic I just can’t get it?

I think he’s incredibly cute (that press release photo is hot) but should still be punished for trying to blow people up.

KSM has an archetypal swarthiness that’s compelling. Kind of like John Belushi playing a terrorist.

Are you forgetting that these are the type of people who revere those who sawed off Nick Berg’s head and those that bashed in the heads of Israeli children with their rifle butts while their parents looked on? Anybody got any more jokes? Maybe we should ask Faisal if he wears boxers or briefs?

Arkwright (aka Bad poopsie Scowl -Errr..Ahhhh…Ummmm…) ,

He probably wears boxers. They’re more accommodating.

Dick Cheney definitely wears boxers:

http://vitriolix.com/stuff/dick.jpg

Pretty funny, sure… ha, ha. The comments and all.

I think Radish makes a point. I mean; doesn’t all of this seem like a badly contrived song and dance routine? And I can understand that one might feel helpless to pull the plug on all of the bullshit; to think of themselves as audience and not as a script-writer. You all have certainly been told as much, that’s true. But, in the end, don’t you think that all of this will have consequences? That ultimately we all will be accountable for what we did or didn’t do? - what we saw through and what we looked away from? - even if only in our own hearts. Somehow I think of the guards at a WW2 German concentration camp sitting around the barracks at night having a drink and a laugh over a game of cards and later being dismayed that “we only did what we were told to do” isn’t being taken as a defense at Nuremberg. Or maybe we’re just whistling as we walk by the graveyard at night. Whatever; I just have a sense of this moral free-fall that has to hit bottom sometime. Sorry, I don’t mean to be a downer.

Perhaps Faisal Shadzad belongs in the mental health category rather than the political.

That’s not to say what he was trying to do wasn’t despicable; and look what he did to his family…

sirromsirrom,

No wonder he and Donald Rumsfeld were wrestling buddies in college…

Speaking of which, I’ve always thought my platonic love Megan Fox is a terrorist so we should probably lock her up too :(