The 9 defendants are facing a wide range of sentences. The 3 men who were convicted of trying to join ISIS could get between 30 or 40 years in prison. Four others who pled guilty are facing a recommended sentence of 15 years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is suggesting about 4 years in prison for the two men who cooperated with prosecutors.
Here is Ilhan Omar’s letter-
Honorable Judge Davis,
As you undoubtedly deliberate with great caution the sentencing of nine recently convicted Somali-American men, I bring to your attention the ramifications of sentencing young men who made a consequential mistake to decades in federal prison. Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence. Society will have no expectations of the to be 50 or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion. Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment: “Americans do not accept you and continue to trivialize your value. Instead of being a nobody, be a martyr.”
The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion. We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation. A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty. A restorative approach to justice assesses the lure of criminality and addresses it.
The desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequences of systematic alienation; people seek violent solutions when the process established for enacting change is inaccessible to them. Fueled by disaffection turned to malice, if the guilty were willing to kill and be killed fighting perceived injustice, imagine the consequence of them hearing, “I believe you can be rehabilitated. I want you to become part of my community, and together we will thrive.” We use this form of distributive justice for patients with chemical dependencies; treatment and societal reintegration. The most effective penance is making these men ambassadors of reform.
The restorative approach provides a long-term solution – though the self-declared Islamic State may soon suffer defeat, their radical approach to change-making will continue as it has throughout history – by criminalizing the undergirding construct rather than its predisposed victims. Therein, this ruling can set a precedent and has the potential to be a landmark case in addressing extremism.
Thank you for your careful attention,
Ilhan Omar
State Representative-Elect – MN 60B
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Shorter version-
Hey Judge,
I’m writing you in case you’re not a useful idiot progressive.
Pro tip from a congressperson: If you go easy on these guys it’ll send a signal that the west is weak and it’ll speed up the Muslim takeover bring us together so that we can create a stronger America, morally and deeply based on its founding Western values
Thanks in advance for your subservience.. er… careful attention, yada yada yada
“Blah. blah, blah, blah . . . ” OFF WITH THEIR FRICKIN’ HEADS!
How about Pay-Per-View capital punishment?
I wonder if Khan of Undone has the same strategist. Today he burped out the usual “poor, uneducated, disadvantaged” as to why he must now confiscate knives.
Hang her as an example to them
Want a message to turn the would be allah-monkey around? Put a bullet in the heads of the allah-monkey we capture in the wild, wrap them in bacon so as to prevent them from going to paradise and then tell all the other allah-monkeys in the wild this is what awaits you.
If we play by their ‘book’ we can stripe them of their super powers (super powers being defined as they crave to die on the battle feild because then get get to drill 72 virgins where the streams run with wine… forever. Nothing more scary than an enemy who is not only not affraid of death but welcomes death)
Make the message simple “your only hope of getting any female action is to calm the F’ down, get a job, get a wife and live a life like a normal human being because allahboy, if we kill you on the battlefield we are going to wrap you in bacon and the only thing I’m for sure is you are not going to paradise…. forever.
There is NO WAY I believe she penned that letter….
Dear Muzz Omar,
I have heard your plea for mercy and have changed my plans because of your impassioned letter. I have issued a change order to expand the construction of a gallows from 9 ropes to 10. Report to my office by 9am tomorrow so that we can discuss the details.
Sincerely,
judge davis.
It always seem like a threat , if you don’t let these terrorist go you’ll just make more. I’m pretty sure she wrote the letter because they share the same ideology.. Like the majority of the people she represents.
Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnd whut about all those Gitmo prisoners we compassionately released…. what did they do?
Yup! You got it. They went right back to the battle field!!
So much for compassion!
She’s a bigoted, treasonous POS.
Who’s this bitch’s ghostwriter? Even if her IQ were 30 points above the Somali average, she couldn’t possibly write the crap she spouts out. Her hatred is certainly real though.
As disgraceful as her hatred of the United States is, at least you don’t have the asshat politicians we have in Canada’s Liberal and NDP party.
We pay our biggest assholes.
“Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence.”
As prospective ISIS members, they were certainly willing to deprive many people (including our military members) THEIR lives. Execute the criminals.
Send their Somali-Ex-American asses back to Somali and let them deal with them!
fuck it! fuck them! fuck you, and fuck off!
your welcome
Next!
Omar is the garbage we knew she was.