The Winds of Freedom

A more complete transcript of the sentencing of shoe-bomber Richard Reid, with much more eloquence from Judge Young:

"It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose.

Here, in this society, the very winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely."

Kinda makes you wish the Bush administration would trust to march every supposed terr into open court, doesn't it?