Re: Re: Terrorism

["Lynette" <helgeson@ndak.net>]

Watch the news, at least two of the hijackers are connected with Osama bin
Laden.

Lynette


> 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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