Terror Suspect’s Mom Says Son is ‘Not Guilty By Reason of Stupidity’ — She’s Partly Correct
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
This morning I saw a story about Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, who, along with another man, was arrested at JFK while allegedly on his way to join up with an Al Qaeda afilliate group.
Alessa’s mother claims her son is not a terrorist, just dumb as a box of faulty detonators manufactured by ACME:
New York (CNN) — The mother of one of the two New Jersey men arrested last week at a New York airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia says the two men are guilty of stupidity — but not of the sinister plan described by authorities.
“Anything makes him angry. But he’s not a terrorist; he’s a stupid kid,” Nadia Alessa said of her U.S.-born son, Mahmood.
It turns out that Mahomed Mahmood Alessa is the man who acheived some level of Internet fame a couple of years ago for being the pillar of brilliance holding this sign:
Some of Alessa’s followers had already done away with several cans of Tropicana frozen concentrate before the error was pointed out.
Score another win for Mother’s Intuition, but just because he’s a moron doesn’t mean he’s not-guilty. Prisons aren’t full of only geniuses.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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Put him in prison, tell him he’s in Somalia. He’ll never know the difference. Everybody’s happy then.
Death to all juice???
What’s he got against O.J. Simpson…
Besides the obvious… (the Towering Inferno).
P.S. Don’t give him any Juice, either.
I like to have a glass of orange jews with my breakfast, but because of the issues with the Juice in the Middle East, I’ve been forgetting to buy jews when I go to the store.
Wait, I’m confused…
He’ll probably write down that he wants a “glass of jews”…
Another ACORN Democrat by the looks of his sign. Enjoy prison. You’ll fit right in.
Actually Doug, the prisons are only filled with the stupid criminals. The smarter ones are in DC.
I’m getting hungry…
Pancakes, bacon, grits, scrambled eggs, and orange juice!
Death to all juice. No doubt, William Jacobsen of Legal insurrection would enjoy this today.
I suspect his mother is correct but it’s not any kind of legal defense.
This is what’s called the Darwin effect – natural selection.
I understand Joran Vander Sloot is experiencing something similar in Peru…can’t wait till MSNBC starts airing Doc Block Peru.
You know, this guy could be incredibly brilliant, and his sign could actually be a hint at the keys to all knowledge…
Umm. Forget it. He’s just stupid.
This guy’s no Lex Luthor.
Um, so if one is stupid, one is more likely to hate the Jewish people? And if one is really stupid, one likes to blow up ones’ self or plant roadside bombs?
He wanted to learn how to fight Israelis hand-to-hand so he learned their martial art …Jew-Jitsu
Well, I believe his mom because she sounds like a clear-thinking, caring and impartial person. I wonder where her son got the “stupid” gene? Let’s find the father and check it out.
…or someone might fit in…
This poor deluded lad wanted to die in jihad so he could get 70 flights on Virgin Airlines. Now he has to go to prison and be 70 virgins-tragic
Allie Oop Oop baby, the Juice are after you.
I guess it’s too late now, but this guy would have made a great candidate in the SC democrat senate primary. I think he’s smarter than Alvin Green, and his name being Alessa he would have been first on the ballot!
He’s likely already a greasy stain somewhere.
Another fine example of a public school graduate? Terrorist groups want the stupid because they are more willing to get blown up for those 72 virgins.
I am willing to believe his mother that he is stupid. You have to qualify as “stupid” in order to assist the clerics who sit back and have useful idiots do the work for them, in the name of power, to them. Of course, there are places in the Middle East where, any place else, including h*ll, would be paradise.
Terrorists need stupid clods like this, as they are easy to indoctrinate.
Now what does that say about Democrats and their infiltration and destruction of public education?
With such an abundance of dummies like this around, future predictions of chaos and anarchy do not worry me much. I say if there are those among us who want to leave America and go to the wonderful (sarc) land of Somalia then let them go. Just leave your citizenships at the door.
Listen to your MAMA, she is always right… About the norm for the “RELIGION OF PEACE”…
Well, his mama likes him.
He’s a good boy, loves his mama
Loves Mohommud and Palistine too
He’s a good boy, crazy ’bout Jihad
Loves virgins and and his Imam too
And I’m free, I’m free fallin’
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be juice haters.
Is there anything in our moral code that says we have to save stupid people from themselves?
I have a sense, after going into the general population at the Peruvian prison, Mr. Vander Sloot will have the smirk removed from his face. Someone, maybe Whoraldo, gave him a year…to survive.
Anything? Like spelling?
And BS – let’s see the birth certificate.
stupid, certainly.
guilty, definitely.
the two are not mutually exclusive, more like they go together in almost every situation.
“Death to all Juice?” See what smaller government gives you?
The most dangerous people are often the most stupid people.
Not only that, Arizona Neanderthal, he will have sign all his correspondence with ‘Anally Yours’.
Now, does he mean ALL JUICE or just 100% juice, or maybe nectars which always were a little thick for my tastes. And what about juice drinks that contain as little as 10% real fruit juice? And what about Hawaiian Punch? And does he really mean fruit juice at all. Perhaps he is really more concerned about “au jus” but doesn’t like to write French words. Maybe we could let Noam Chomsky spend a few years with this young man to see what he is really trying to say…
Well, only an idiot would strap a bomb on himself and blow himself up thinking he’d go straight to Heaven for it.
The smart ones are hiding in caves making the fools believe all that BS.
If he goes to jail, lets send him LOTS of prune juice to kill!
Shrivel, Baby, Shrivel!
I dig where he’s coming from, but for me, it’s mostly the crappy corn syrup they put in everything!
Surely there must be a Democrat Senate seat available for this rising star?
Didn’t Obama recently say something about how “the loss of American juice captures the world’s imagination because it reminds us of how valuable a free press is?”
Or am I confusing him with some other deep thinker?
“No Blood for Juice!”
Alessa’s mother is sending a strong message:
Fighting these guys would be like fighting zombies. You could shoot them repeatedly in the head and nothing would happen.
Reminds me of the old Gilda Radner sketch, featuring Emily Latilda, that she would do on the News. One time, she talked about Jewelry in Russia. What’s wrong with Jewelry in Russia? She would go on, then Chevy Chase would lean over and say, “It’s Jewry in Russia – the way they are treating Jews in Russia, not Jewelry in Russia.” and Emily Latilda would then say, “Jewry, oh, never mind.”
So, Juice, Jus, Joos, whatever.
Yeah, and endangered feces, presidential erections, conserving our natural racehorses, and making Puerto Rico a steak. I loved watching that skit.
Gilda’s skits were classy and classic.
I loved her as a girl scout/brownie jumping on the bed, pretending to be a bride. Loved her sketch with Bill Murray as the nerdy date, and she and her mother (God bless Mr. Lubner) were great together. All that energy…so sad when she died.
Do you think there is a small problem with this nation when you can freely and openly demand death to all fruit drinks and you are lauded as a member of the “religion of peace” but if you call for smaller government and lower taxes you are condemned as a racist…
Seems to me, like many on the left, he likes Kool-Aid.
You think he believes its not juice?
I say we send him to Florida, to work in the orange groves, so he can see where all the juice comes from. Maybe then he will learn that fruit drinks are your friend….
“Stupid is as Stupid does”
F. Gump
I’m with the Mom on this one. There’s a village in Somalia that needs a new idiot.
Suicide bombers are self-selected for stupid.
If you look closely, he only calls for Death to (Zionist) Juice. So if your orange juice is squeezed from 100% Florida Oranges, you should be fine.
I can see Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engval now, “Theeere’s your sign!”
He may be stupid but who is that guy with one of his hands on the sign and whispering in his ear? He looks like the leader that leads these young stupid men to slaughter. Lets put some scrutiny on him. Who is he?
Which Mosque, and Imam taught him to hate Juice?
Does it matter? There all the same.
“You want the Juice? You can’t handle the Juice!”
Oh goodness me! We’re being beaten up by a bunch of guys who can’t spell Jews? We are doomed by Imams who never made it to the National Spelling Bee.
He spelled “juice” correctly, so to me it was simply his weird attempt at being funny…maybe?
Anyway, being as dumb as a rock has nothing to do with guilt or not, obviously. Hundreds of Nazis were executed or given life sentences for “just following orders,” and they were no less idiots than this clown.