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Thread #65802   Message #1087152
Posted By: Peg
06-Jan-04 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Book'em, Bush'o
Subject: RE: BS: Book'em, Bush'o
Teribus; here's a question for you:

How many terrorist attacks occurred in the United States in the two and a quarter years BEFORE 9-11? How many American citizens wee killed or injured as a result of those attacks?

As for the answer to YOUR questions, a number of people died from anthrax after 9-11 as a result of infection from spores mailed or placed by "terrorists." A good many nnocent citizens have been arrested, detained, strip-searched and subjected to all sorts of humiliating treatement, all in the name of 'fighting terrorism." i call this domestic terrorism of the worst sort. A tyrannical government always finds convenient excuses to trample upn its citzens' civil rights. j

Just because we have five thousand brands of cereal on our grocery store shelves and an iMac in every office doesn't make us any more noble than the worst police state overseas.

I would love to know how many American citizens have been injured in their period of detainment at the Guantanamo facility...but since they have no access to lawyers or their families, there is no way of knowing...despite none of them having been formally charged with anything...

If this sort of thing were perpetrated by OTHER nations, these people would be known as "hostages," but because it's the good ole U S of   A, they are "suspects."