Re: Terrorism

["John Bass" <jbass@beattynv.com>]

Lif,
Osama bin Laden has been actively hunted by the U.S. since the Embassy
bombings in Kenya & Tanzania where 224 lives were lost including 12
Americans. There is an indictment for his arrest along with 16 others, 4
have been convicted in a nine week trial, not a kangaroo court, in which it
took 12 days for the jury to decide their guilt.
Evidence shows that Osama bin Laden was also directly involved in the ship
bombing in Yemen where 17 U.S soldiers were killed.
What does it take Lif? You may want to give bin Laden the benefit of the
doubt, I don't.
This madman has to be stopped, he has a couple hundred million dollars that
he is willing to spend to bring down Western Civilization.

John Bass
Beatty Nevada
----- Original Message -----
From: "fasterhorses" <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: RC: Terrorism


> My concern is that so many people have decided bin Laden's guilt without
> *knowing for sure* that he/his group was responsible.  I am very concerned
> about this lynch-mob attitude that's going around.  What happened to the
> American notion of "innocent until proven guilty"?    Any terrorist
> sympathizer could be hired to do the job of hijacking some planes - does
> that mean the hiring party *must* have been bin Laden?  When it comes to
> murder trials, the jury is instructed to be sure "beyond reasonable doubt"
> about the guilt of the accused because sending the innocent to death is
NOT
> tolerated in the USA.  Bin Laden and his group are apparently on trial
here
> for murder. Will we have a kangaroo court, where guilt is decided before
the
> proof?
>
> No matter what kind of a scumbag the accused is, I support the American
> concept of innocent until proven guilty because once We the People fudge
the
> tenets upon which our whole way of life rests it becomes easier to fudge
> again.  True strength means standing for principles even when the going
gets
> tough.  Well, friends, this is *very* tough going.  It is time to inspect
> our beliefs.  Will they stand or will they fall because we got hurt and we
> want to hit back?
>
> I don't want us to become that which we say we are against.
>
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