It is widely reported, including here, that Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) who represents the Seattle area, in her Tweet remembrance of the 9/11 attacks included the 19 hijackers in her total of lives lost. Following a storm of protest, she has taken down the Tweet.
The only thing regrettable about the 19 hijacker deaths is that they were too over too quickly and insufficiently unpleasant. The hijackers clearly deserved the death penalty.
Ms. Jayapal deserves opprobrium for publicly regretting their deaths. There truly are people the world is better without and those 19 are included in that number.
I do not wish Jayapal harm in any physical sense, but I would hope there are enough decent people in Seattle to select another representative for their district. She is a poster child for the People’s Democratic Republic of Seattle, emblematic of its Maoist reputation.
