What do you think should happen to the roommates of the Marathon bomber?

[kentuck]

It has been reported that the bomber, Johar, told them several months ago that he knew how to make a bomb. Did they know that he was making one?

Then the day of the bombing, he tells them to take whatever they want out of his apartment. They take his laptop and backpack with the leftovers from the bombmaking and threw it in the trash. They say they were just trying to protect their friend.

Does that sound like normal behavior to you?

Or does that sound like someone that might enjoy the fact that Americans are being bombed and killed, while they get a good American education and enjoy the American life?

Does anyone think they would have come forward and said anything if these chickenshits had not been killed and captured? They would have been laughing and joking about it today.

"LOL!" That was the email message sent to them by Johar when they said it looked like him on the TV?

They all now have good American lawyers...

[librechik]

1. 18 months in the slammer followed by 10 years probation.

[bemildred]

2. +1. nt

[abbeyco]

19. Your sig gif is just hiliarous! Thx for my belly-laugh of the day :)

[FSogol]

3. 1. They deserve American lawyers. That's something that our system of government guarantees.

2. How much info on whether any one else was involved will dictate whether they can make a plea deal or not.
3. Their student visas will be canceled and unless they go to jail, they'll be leaving the US and probably placed on a terrorist watch list.
4. The American kid is facing a few years in jail unless he has some info.

At any rate, they f'ed up big time and seem to have little compassion for the injured and dead.

[Nye Bevan]

4. I think about 10 years in prison would send the correct message (nt)

[closeupready]

5. They should receive due process, just like you should if you were

ever charged with a crime.

As to what should happen to his friends, I don't know - I don't know what the sequence of events was, I don't know what type of relationship they had, I don't know what they knew or when they knew it.

Why are so many on DU so joins-ing to lynch people?

When did it become a hallmark of liberalism to be an authoritarian?

[pscot]

6. Lynching is an old American tradition

[elleng]

8. Thanks, closeupready.

[closeupready]

10. YW. And isn't it kind of sad that I really

didn't say anything groundbreaking or radical, just what used to be considered a basic part of being left-wing or liberal. Yet, it seems radical these days. Guess I'm getting old, lol.

Cheers.

[elleng]

17. Not old, but retaining your smarts.

And not even part of being left-wing or liberal, imo, but respecting our legal/judicial process.

Really! Each of their INTENTIONS will be examined, as the process unfolds. There was more about that earlier on Andrea Mitchell w Pete Williams.

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. Unless I missed something...

the first person in this thread to mention lynching was you.

[kentuck]

15. Let me check?

Yep! You are right.

[lapislzi]

7. I think the investigation should proceed.

I think appropriate criminal justice and due process procedures should be followed. If deemed appropriate, these young men should be either deported or incarcerated, depending on the law (I don't know which would apply).

If they are tried and found guilty (if that's what happens to kids on student visas), they should go to prison and serve a sentence commensurate with the crimes for which they are putatively convicted.

If they wind up back in Kazakhstan, I don't know what could, would, or should happen to them. I hope they get a trial here.

Fortunately, I'm not in the judging business, and I sincerely hope I am not called for jury service in any of these cases.

[closeupready]

9. +1 to all of this.

[kentuck]

21. "I think appropriate criminal justice and due process procedures should be followed."

I think we can all agree with this.

[Marrah_G]

11. I'd have to know what it is they did or did not do first

[Blue_Tires]

12. obstruction of justice IS a crime...

I expect they'll get a couple of years then deportation, if possible given the high profile of the case...

[geek tragedy]

14. If they did what they're accused of, I would say 10 years then deportation.

During prison, forced to watch Borat once a week.

[aikoaiko]

16. 5 - 8 years if found guilty

What they did is serious and deserves jail time.

[kestrel91316]

18. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and if convicted,

should receive an appropriately harsh sentence.

And thanks to the internet, this incident will follow them around until the end of their days. Fancy attorneys can't change that.

[kudzu22]

20. People do get jail time for lying to the FBI

just ask Martha Stewart and Marion Jones. I'd be willing to cut a deal if they have any info on a terror cell/network operating in the US.