Rolling Stone magazine might think Islamic terrorist Dzokhar Tsarnaev is a teen heartthrob, but Rebekah Gregory isn’t having any of it.
Gregory lost her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, and on Wednesday she testified against Tsarnaev in court. Then she posted the following on Facebook:
Dear Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
My name is Rebekah Gregory. We don’t really know each other and never will. But over the last two years, I have seen your face not only in pictures, but in almost every one of my nightmares. Moments before the first blast, your stupid backpack even brushed up against my arm, but I doubt you remember because I am no one to you. A complete stranger. And although I was merely just a blip on your radar, (someone that happened to be standing 3 feet from your designated “good spot” for a bomb), you have been so much more to me. Because you have undoubtedly been my source of fear since April 15th, 2013…
But today, all that changed. Because this afternoon, I got to walk into a courtroom and take my place at the witness stand, just a few feet away from where you were sitting…
I looked at you right in the face….and realized I wasn’t afraid anymore. And today I realized that sitting across from you was somehow the crazy kind of step forward that I needed all along.
And I think that’s the ironic thing that happens when someone intends something for evil. Because somehow, some way, it always ends up good. But you are a coward. A little boy who wouldn’t even look me in the eyes to see that. Because you can’t handle the fact that what you tried to destroy, you only made stronger.
These guys are all cowards. They can’t win a fair fight, so they set bombs that maim and kill women and children. They put people in cages and set them on fire. They throw gay men off buildings. They behead people on camera while hiding behind their little masks. They’re pathetic nobodies who think slaughtering innocent people will bring them closer to God.
Rebekah Gregory will never be on the cover of a music magazine. Has-been musicians won’t write any “poems” about her. But she’s far stronger than any of these cowardly pricks will ever be.
Tsarnaev is unlikely to get the death penalty. Not in Massachusetts. They’re too worried about what they did to make him hate America. And that’s what he wants anyway. He wants martyrdom. So let him rot in prison for the rest of his life. Let him grow old and die in there, or eat a broken mop handle, or whatever ends up happening.
Hope he enjoys being the virgin reward for 72 convicts.