What should be the prison sentence for having made a so-called “martyrdom” tape, as it appears that some of the wannabe airline bombers did? From the BBC:

Police investigating an alleged plot to bring down airliners have found several martyrdom videos in the course of their searches, the BBC has learned. An unofficial police source said the recordings – discovered on laptop computers – appear to have been made by some of the suspects being questioned….

Meanwhile, it has emerged that every police force in the UK is now involved in the investigation. The 43 forces in England and Wales, eight in Scotland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have sent, or are sending, officers to assist.

Maybe they should add on a few years to the prison sentence for the drain on police resources involved in having over 50 police forces involved in putting a stop to this. Normally we are in favor of the death penalty, but it is perhaps fitting that the one thing these creatures should never be allowed to do is the one thing they so cherished.

UPDATE

Melanie Phillips, via Roger Kimball (HT: Roger Simon) reminds us that the prisons could get mighty full mighty fast with these miscreants, as she discussed regarding the 7/7 subway bombings:

it quickly became clear that the bombers were all British. The realisation that British boys would want to murder their fellow citizens was bad enough. But the thought that they would do so by using their own bodies as human bombs was a horror which people had assumed was confined to the mystifying passions of the Middle East. So, for some time afterwards, Britain told itself these had not been suicide bombings. Eventually, it was proved beyond doubt that they had been. A shocking videotape surfaced in which the bombers’ young leader, clad in an anorak and an Arab keffiyeh, calmly declared that suicide bombing was the only way to make Britain acknowledge Muslim grievances – and all in a broad Yorkshire accent. There was now no getting away from the fact that British Muslims had turned themselves into human bombs to murder as many of their fellow citizens as possible.

It was only then that Britain belatedly acknowledged the lethal and many-headed hydra it had allowed to grow inside its own society. The attacks had been carried out by home-grown Muslim terrorists, suburban boys who had been educated at British schools and had degrees, jobs and comfortable families. Yet these British boys, who loved cricket and helped disabled children, had somehow been so radicalised within the British society that had nurtured them that they were prepared to murder their fellow citizens in huge numbers and to turn themselves into human bombs to do so.

An appalling vista thus opened up for Britain, which houses around two million Muslim citizens out of a population of some 60 million. How many more Muslim youths, people wondered, might similarly be planning mass murder against their fellow Britons? For although no-one thinks that the vast majority of British Muslims are anything other than peaceful and law-abiding, the evidence suggests that the numbers who do support either the aims of the tactics of the jihad are terrifying. According to British officials, up to 16,000 British Muslims are either actively engaged in or support terrorist activity, while up to 3000 are estimated to have passed through al Qaeda training camps and with several hundred thought to be primed to attack the UK.

We’d like to find the worst punishment possible for these primitives. How about a decade or two of psychoanalysis, which might make them really unfit to practice their beliefs — and then they might have to pay the penalty prescribed by their own?

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