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Reader comment on item: The FBI Loses Its Way [with Marwan Kreidie]

Submitted by Kyle Gosnell (United States), Jul 6, 2004 at 13:21

Actually there is some confusion obviously on Mr. Kreidie's part, this is the USA, not Germany or France or Spain or any other country, and darned sure not a Arabic one. In comparative respect, if Cuba was sending this level of hit men and terrorists over here, we would have blown them off the map; this confuses me a little on what the leaders' priorities are, but I'm an ordinary citizen , and not privy to top level information.
However it would seem to me prudent, that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has feathers, likely it's a duck....... Meaning if only members of certain groups are doing terrorist things... and all that implies... Is this discriminatory? Let's consider the "accessory to crime" laws , in various forms in this country. If you take in a criminal, knowing they are wanted by law enforcement, you are held as an accomplice in some manner or another, depending on the crime.

My reason for the previous statement, is that if people do not condemn these terrorist actions en masse, then their lack of action can be construed to be approval...

Yes, yes I know the Mainline Media is hoping for a conflict, and is attempting all sorts of scenarios to accomplish this, and write and show tiny radical segments of a situation, to make it seem the whole world is involved, we must not allow their slanted power bid to sway us from the real things in the world. ((At some point, level headed law makers will call to task the individuals, who have directly caused murder and mass killings in the name of free speech, and justly so, as all others in a society are not allowed to incite mayhem causing death))

I don't want to take you too far afield on this, as Mr. Kreidie is not only in error, he is covering his position in the Muslim community; ...


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