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Originally posted by Gutterboy
Good stuff pathfinder! 
As I said in my other post on the subject, I believe the reason the government tried to convict him in the press, effectively biasing all potential jurors, was that they knew they did not have the evidence to support a murder conspiracy charge against him. They accepted the plea bargain because they didn't want to risk losing the case in front of a Jury as a result of the lack of evidence.
This case is a worse travesty of Justice, but just as good a textbook example of primitive herd mentality, than Marjorie Knoller's 2nd degree murder conviction in the SF dog mauling case. Being personally unlikable, or an adherent of wacko fundamentalist beliefs, does not make you guilty of murder.
Funny how the hysterical flag waving patriots are always first in line to trample the judicial principles the USA stands for when they think it will serve their ends, isn't it?
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If it would have gone to a jury, I seriously doubt that the government would have lost but a few, if any, of the charges against him.
The people that would have served, would have been for the most part, sheep who would have followed the flag waving spin presented via the government and the media.
I do agree that the Government knew their "facts" were weak and did not want to take even the slightest of risks that their charges (in most of the counts/if not all) would be found weightless by a jury, thus the plea bargin.
I will repeat that Ashooooos comment; "Today marks an important victory in America's war on terrorism.", to me is ridiculous.
I ask how many of you feel safer from future terrorist acts because the "big player" Walker is going to prison?