I am amazed at how a lot people can feel so safe and smug thinking that the term "terrorist" will only ever be applied to people that look a certain way or belong to certain group, especially when we are told flat out that the reasons for considering a Citizen a "terrorist" and issuing their extrajudicial execution can be "classified", i.e. not subject to any explanation, scrutiny or burden of proof.
Isn't it obvious that "Terrorist" is a catch-all word? It doesn't really hold any concrete and definite meaning as it can be spun in so many ways. Today it may be the bearded Muslim guy, tomorrow it may be someone advocating resistance to unfair taxation and a runaway central bank. Who the F decides?
What ***** told you we feel so safe and smug about who's being labeled a terrorist??
I don't -- not when Tea Partiers are, among some circles, considered "terrorists."
What would you have the govt. do; send AQ sympathy cards?
Right now they are a danger.
Our government has always such.
If you believe otherwise ask Randy Weaver.
Ask the Branch Davidians. Oh wait, you can't; they're DEAD. Well, most of 'em.
It's a complicated world we live in. I'm sorry things are not simple. It's not all Roy Rogers-like, good-guys-wear-white, bad-guys-wear-black kind of thing. Ma and apple pie were superceded by improvized explosive devices and cell phone triggeres. Pretty quilt blankets knitted by grandma were superceded by 19 terrorists commandeering fully fueled jetliners and smashing them into buildings, and watching people in those buildings jump to their deaths rather than being fried Colonel Sanders' extra-crispy style.
I want AQ smashed inside my lifetime. Maybe I will be labeled a terrorist myself by SorryCharlie Schumer for being against taxes in three years or something. I will have to deal with that cr@p at that time.
Life sucks.
'tain't easy.
Deal with it.