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| Carlos the Jackal Refusing Food in Prison |
| 2004-05-06 |
| Jailed terrorist Carlos the Jackal is on a hunger strike to protest being transferred to solitary confinement at a high-security French prison, his lawyer said Wednesday. STOP, STOP ... You’re ripping my heart out! The Venezuelan, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, stopped eating and drinking Tuesday after prison authorities tried to move him from his cell, said his lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre. Put the guy on a battery acid IV drip. After refusing the transfer, Ramirez was put in a special disciplinary section, prison officials said. Ramirez was apprehended in 1994 and convicted for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer. He is serving a life sentence. Wouldn’t want it to end too soon, now would we? Ramirez gained international notoriety during the Cold War for staging a string of deadly bombings, assassinations and hostage seizures. He is also suspected in the 1976 Palestinian hijacking of a French jetliner in flight to Entebbe, Uganda. Gee, one of terrorism’s founding fathers. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #16 If they decide to give him a feeding tube, I hope they run it into his stomach via the colon. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-07 4:18:59 AM |
| #15 Since his old roommate is very very high in the German government... Why doesn't he just call him up and ask him to get the world court to order his release. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2004-05-06 11:45:46 PM |
| #14 He reminds me of Mahatma Ghandi. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-05-06 10:16:14 PM |
| #13 As I remember, Carlos came from money had a taste for the good life. I also remember him being one fat load, so he could run this thing out for at least a couple of months before anybody noticed. Or cared. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-05-06 9:11:58 PM |
| #12 Ah, mais oiu, Isabelle is not just his lawyer, she is also his wife. Guess she's a lousy cook. |
| Posted by: Pamela 2004-05-06 8:12:52 PM |
| #11 That would be funny, to get tasty, nice smelling foods in order to tempt him off his hunger strike. Then when he eats you film it and talk about what a week will he has. Then the next hunger strike you simply ignore and if he dies you say you assumed he would be weak again. Sacra bleu? |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-05-06 5:34:40 PM |
| #10 I like it,Deacon! |
| Posted by: Anonymous4754 2004-05-06 5:32:18 PM |
| #9 Execution by hunger! Pizza for the witnesses' (throw in your own s and ' as needed) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-06 4:44:00 PM |
| #8 Put him in an electric chair and set it for trickle charge. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-05-06 3:58:21 PM |
| #7 memo to Carlos: hunger strikes only work if someone cares |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-06 12:10:10 PM |
| #6 Ironic when you consider how he was caught: checking into the hospital for liposuction. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2004-05-06 11:51:48 AM |
| #5 "Legume! Put this prisoner on suicide watch immediately." "Suicide watch, sir?" "Yes. If he tries to off himself, just stand there and watch." "Yes, sir, very good, sir." |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-05-06 10:06:35 AM |
| #4 If I ran the prison i'd say to the press: Our prisons food is not haut cuisine but Carlos eats enough for two and we were forced to cut him back to a normal sized meal from time to time. I think he's posturing, hoping to get a Big Mac, and this will not happen under my watch. But the big question I have, normally they feed them intreveniously once they've hungered long enough. Why? Let them go. Its their dignity, their choice, etc. Put the food in front of them day after day. Take it away if they don't eat it within an hour. If they die of hunger its their choice. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-05-06 9:41:23 AM |
| #3 This is truly heartbreaking. I recommend that Mr. Ramirez be immediately pardoned and set free. That is obviously what is called for here. The processing should should only take six weeks or so. I'm sure he can hold out that long. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2004-05-06 7:57:37 AM |
| #2 Lol! Read the title and wondered, "And this is bad because ???" He "refused" to be moved? Uh, excuse me, but who's running the show in Phrench prisons? Sadly, I guess sealing his anal sphincter with a hot poker won't do much good, now with him throwing a temper tantrum. On second thought: why, pray tell, is he still alive? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-06 7:30:25 AM |
| #1 He was always sort of a tubby terrorist in former days as a playboy, commie, swine. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-06 5:30:15 AM |