Cry Me A River

Murderer and domestic terrorist Scott Roeder does not like how he's being treated in prison:

Roeder said it was freezing in his cell. "I started having a bad cough. I thought I was going to have pneumonia," he said.

He said he called AP because he wanted to emphasize the conditions in the jail so that in the future suspects would not have to endure the same conditions.

Oh, boo-effing-hoo.  It's prison, it's not supposed to be comfortable.  If it were up to me, he wouldn't be in solitary confinement anyway; he'd have to share a cell with the biggest, meanest "Bubba" in the joint instead.

At any rate, why on earth is AP giving this terrorist a platform?  How do you suppose the Tiller family feels when the person who killed their husband and father is whining, without a hint of remorse or irony, about the conditions in his jail cell?

This wouldn't even be news if not for this little doozy:

"I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal," Roeder said. He would not elaborate.

If I'm the prosecutor in this case, I want him to keep talking.  I want him to keep saying stuff like this, because everything he says can be used against him in court.  Not just everything he says under interrogation, but everything.  His murder case is pretty cut-and-dry, but a few more statements like this and you're looking at a pretty strong RICO case as well.

But can you imagine if someone from al-Qaeda had said this while imprisoned at Gitmo?  He'd be waterboarded until he couldn't tell wet from dry anymore.  So if the argument for waterboarding is that it's necessary to save American lives from terrorist attacks, and here you have a terrorist professing to have information on further attacks...well then, what is to be done with him to prevent those attacks?

This is obviously an attempt at playing Devil's Advocate.  But I do wonder how those who so strongly support torture would feel about it being used on an anti-abortion, rather than jihadist, terrorist.