Why Life is Better Than Martyrdom

What does Moussaoui have to look forward to? How about:

There is no pretense that the prison is preparing the inmate for a return to society. Like the cellmate of the count of Monte Cristo who died an old, tired convict, Aiken said, "Moussaoui will deteriorate."

The inmate "is constantly monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he said. "He will never get lost in a crowd because he would never be in a crowd."

Christopher Boyce, a convicted spy who was incarcerated at Supermax, left the prison about 100 miles south of Denver with no regret. "You're slowly hung," he once told The Times. "You're ground down. You can barely keep your sanity."

Bernard Kleinman, a New York lawyer who represented Yousef, called it "extraordinarily draconian punishment."

Moussaoui might be a household name today, "but 20 years from now, people will forget him," Kleinman said. "He will sit there all alone, and all forgotten."

That works for me. A martyr is remembered and revered. A failed terrorist is forgotten.

I hope the facility is not so secure that 2,700 ghosts can't visit his cell nightly and remind him of what he was apart of and the fact that he could've saved them and chose not to.

I only pray he hears the sounds of mental agony emanating from Richard Reid and Ramzi Yussef's cells also.