Organizations that finance terrorists will never pay judgments.
Reader comment on item: [The Boim Trial:] Exploiting the Koran to Terrorize

Submitted by gospelmidi (United States), Dec 16, 2004 at 02:12

E. wrote, "...these defendants have all the money in the world to keep fighting any satisfaction of this huge judgment through the courts for EONS!"

The case was decided by Judge Arlander Keys, United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Judge Keys is a Marine, a veteran of two tours in Vietnam, and obviously a jurist with real guts who refuses to be intimidated.

AFAIK, the case has only three possible appeals. It can be appealed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. It can then be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit. Finally, it can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The time and money required for three levels of appeals may be incredible, but it is finite.

However, the final verdict will never be paid. The defendants will simply close up shop, EFT all their funds to an offshore account, and take a flight back to Saudi. Then another cover operation will open in its place.

How many criminals, not to mention Islamist terrorists, has the U.S. extradited from Saudi Arabia? How many of the Saudi royals will hand over to infidels Wahhabi operatives doing the royals' dirty work?

I don't know the solution, but I'm sure that a civil suit in a U.S. court against enablers of terrorism during wartime is an exercise in futility.

"Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other." Thus spoke John Adams, to whom "religious" was synonymous with "Christian".

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison

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