:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 8.09.2004 ::
:: RE OK City ::
[NOTE: Someone that I considered a friend once asked me, in reference to the Oklahoma City bombing: 'I killed 161 people for my cause today. What did you do?' I was speechless that this person would say something so extraordinarily -- excuse me -- and just completely fucking stupid. I refused to dignify the idiocy with an answer. How would one reply to such a revolting and doltish question anyway. OK. Perhaps by saying, 'I DIDN'T kill 161 people... an INFINITELY superior position. I bring this up because Terry Nichols addressed his jury today & below is a story conerning the event.]
Nichols Asks Forgiveness After Sentencing
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, addressing a court for the first time, pledged his allegiance to Christianity and asked victims of the blast for forgiveness Monday as a judge sentenced him to 161 consecutive life sentences.
"Words cannot adequately express the sorrow I have had over the years for the grief that so many have endured and continue to suffer," Nichols said from the witness stand. "I am truly sorry for what occurred."
District Judge Steven Taylor gave Nichols life without parole on each of 161 counts of first-degree murder.
The judge called Nichols a "terrorist" and the "No. 1 mass murderer in all of U.S. history."
"Your criminal acts in this case are historic in proportion," the judge said. "What could motivate you to do this? There are no answers."
Read more here.
posted by me
:: 10:25:00 PM [+] ::
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