I would say exactly the same thing. One that strikes at the heart of our freedom whether from here or abroad deserves a smack down. Whether its the redneck militia's or Al-Queda, we cannot allow them to prey on their perception of our weakness.
Good to hear you are equal opportunity in regard to your treatment of those you consider threats. That said wouldn't ignoring the Bill of Rights strike at the heart of our freedom?
I prefer the constitutional American Justice system to your authoritarian ideas. I also prefer to use methods that actually provide reliable intel instead of waterboarding. I prefer to actually do what works and is effective against terrorists instead of pretend like it's an episode of 24.
other than an alert t-shirt vendor, and some balky fertilizer, what worked to prevent the attack this time?
Out of 87 (now 88) posts in this thread, you have 23 of them. I haven't seen you this fired up about a topic in a long time. What gives?
And that is apparently why Holder is, ahem, holding off charges as of yet. The boy is singing like a bird without the waterboarding.
"Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad told interrogators that he received training in bomb making during a recent five-month trip to Pakistan, according to a senior U.S. official familiar with the matter. Ottoman faints.
I agree with what you wrote above, but just wondering, do you have the statistics on the percentages of what motivated people to attempt terrorist attacks on Times Square within the last three years? Thanks in advance.
I am confused that the right would wish for this man not to have his Miranda rights read to him. He is a U.S. citizen after all. Let's see, I think Basso is a terrorist. I'm going to report him to the CIA and FBI. Now, they can arrest him and not read him his miranda rights - declare him an enemy combatant and hold him indefinitely regardless of whether or not evidence ever actually appears. Welcome to your America, Basso. I guess one of the benefits of your way - of letting American citizens be detained indefinitely if accused of terrorism, is we can get rid of you. Let's all join in - Basso, stop talking about terrorism! Holy cow! You bad terrorist! Good bye!!!!
bassaugh (if you can't be bothered to transcribe my moniker correctly, it seems to me to afford you too much respect to pay attention to yours) is, I guess under the mistaken assumption that because he can't differentiate between Pakistanis, they are all the same. This Kashmiri guy still appears to have absolutely nothing to do with Tehrik-i-Taliban and Qari Hussain Mehsud, the bomb maker from Waziristan who put out the audio tape that got you so sexually aroused. Or is it too much to expect you to be able to differentiate between different types of wogs?
What does your question have to do with affective gathering of intel and the American Justice system?
Media (and basso) Ignore The Fact That Man Who Alerted Police To Failed Times Square Bombing Is A Muslim Immigrant Yet one fact being ignored in the American media’s sensationalist narrative about the failed bombing is that the man who was responsible for police finding the bomb was Muslim. The UK’s Times Online reports that Aliou Niasse, a Senagalese Muslim immigrant who works as a photograph vendor on Times Square, was the first to bring the smoking car to the police’s attention: As the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights notes, “South Asian, and Muslim communities may yield useful information to those fighting terrorism. Arabs and Arab Americans also offer the government an important source of Arabic speakers and translators. The singling out of Arabs, South Asians, Muslims, and Sikhs for investigation regardless of whether any credible evidence links them to terrorism will simply alienate these individuals and compromise the anti-terrorism effort.” Reflecting on Niasse’s good samaritanism Muslim-American author Sumbul Ali-Karamali writes, “It’s somewhat consoling to know that the man who first noticed the smoking Nissan Pathfinder and sought help is also Muslim, a Senegalese immigrant. … I grew up Muslim in this country, with Muslim friends and non-Muslim friends, and there was very little difference between the two groups. We were all American.”
