Threat Level Raised
Sunday, September 10th, 2006 • Filed under Other
ANOTHER ONE OF LIFE’S LITTLE LESSONS #7541: If you’re going to bite the hand that feeds you, be sure not to bite the hand that feeds you.
MADRID (Reuters) – A Basque separatist prisoner on trial for threatening to kill a judge on Thursday told the presiding judge that he would shoot him and “skin him alive,” risking yet another jail sentence.
Ignacio Javier Bilbao Goikoetxea, a convicted murderer and member of armed separatist group ETA, kicked the dock’s bullet-proof screen and launched a torrent of abuse at judge Alfonso Guevara and Baltasar Garzon, the judge he had threatened at a previous trial who was appearing as a witness.
“If you’re a man, come here … I’m going to skin you alive. Come here if you’ve got the balls… I look forward to shooting you seven times when I get my hands on you,” the shaven-headed Bilbao Goikoetxea told Guevara in the Madrid courtroom.
Wow, quite a scary guy. He sounds like every bully I had growing up as a kid — except with more hair.
They also had scarier names than Bilbao. If a bully like that had a name at my old high school, my friends and I would call him “Bilbo” from “Lord of the Rings” until our faces turned red with laughter. Then he’d pull our underwear over our heads and around our necks until we turned blue and all would be right with the world again.
Reuters goes on to report this isn’t the first outburst. ETA defendants have been causing outburst all over Spain just as the government prepares to sign a peace accord ending 38 years of violence in the region. Phew, this isn’t the only reason I wish we could ship Judge Judy out to Spain.
opp says: June 5th, 2007 at 10:51 am
WTF!!!!!!!!