Zacarias Moussaou: Scape Goat

Zacarias Moussaou
(zack ah REE us Miss SOW wee)
Scape-goat
One who bears the sins of others for them

Diversion of attention from the real causes of a problem.


The blindfold that the goddes Justice normally wears over her eyes has become a full face mask to hide her shame.
The age-old search for legal impartiality has been turned into an emotional caldron over the air crashes of September 11, 2001. More help for a beleagured presidential administration as they try to rally citizens for the administration’s War on Terror. This “war” can only be continued by maintaining a pit of terror in the consciounsess of the American people.
Such events sometimes lead people to ask others, DuKakis-like, how they would feel if such a thing had happened to their loved ones. I can answer such a hypothetical question only for myself - and I am totally against the dealth penalty - see my blog “What Does the Death Penalty Really Kill”
My answer to the question of how would I feel if that had happened to a loved one of mine is that I would probably be furious. I would probably want to kill - maybe even want to torture the guilty one - I would gladly pull the trigger, drop the gate, throw the switch or whatever.
But I also know that would not satisfy me, and I would later regret those actions. It would be revenge - it would not only not be justice, it would be a defeat for justice.
Zacarias Moussaou is not a good person, he is not nice, he is bad and probably can never be turned loose again. He appears to be a very sick person. But the legal question is this: Did he cause the attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93?
It is alleged that if he had told the truth after he had been captured that the FBI could then have averted those attacks.
But in light of all the information the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD, and the State Department had already been fed - by their own operatives - in whom they completely trusted - and how they purposefully interpreted the other information about WMD in Iraq, etc. It seems doubtful that anybody in authority would have paid any attention to anything. They already knew all they needed to know, therefore they knew all they would ever know. It seems obvious, to this writer at least, that Zacarias' words would have fallen upon ears that “knew better than that.”
Long after Moussaou has been put to death - executed for lying - the American public will still not have even asked the most important qestion of all: “Why? Why did they do it?”