NYT’s Pity for Tsarnaev
Writers sympathize with the terrorist.
A year after the Boston marathon bombings, The New York Times is expressing pity … for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “He cannot mingle, speak or pray with other prisoners. His only visitors are his legal team, a mental health consultant and his immediate family, who apparently have seen him only rarely,” began Monday’s article, Marathon Bombing Suspect Waits in Isolation. “He may write only one letter – three pages, double-sided – and place one telephone call each week, and only to his family. If he reads newspapers and magazines, they have been stripped of classified ads and letters to the editor, which the government deems potential vehicles for coded messages. He watches no television, listens to no radio. He ventures outside infrequently, and only to a single small open space.” Well, he is a terrorist charged with killing three and injuring 260. Though the Times doesn’t explicitly come out against strict confinement, they hint as much. “The restrictions,” you see, “are reserved for inmates considered to pose the greatest threat to others,” and “privately, federal officials say there is little of substance to suggest that Mr. Tsarnaev, 20, and his brother Tamerlan were anything but isolated, homegrown terrorists.” Well in that case…
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