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Thread #35693   Message #490728
Posted By: GUEST,Canadian
24-Jun-01 - 04:26 AM
Thread Name: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
Subject: RE: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
MTed

By definition, a woman who would go to a foreign country and aid and abet the kidnapping of diplomats from a third country is at LEAST deluded and may be mentally ill in other ways. If you are saying that government terrorism justified civilian terrorism then you may not be deluded, but perhaps you should open your eyes.

There is a difference between being a nun, a journalist or even for that matter, a legitimate revelutionary and being a terrorist.

Who are you to say Tim McVeigh was deluded? He had every right to his opinions. But when he crossed the line into murder, the just and proper thing was to make him pay. the only pity being that he could not be made to pay 169 times.

I am not pinning the Oklahoma City bombings on you. I am accusing you of a double standard. McVeigh was a citizen advocating economic change. If McVeigh had had a Peruvian accomplice, shouuld that accomplice have been sent back to her parents in Peru rather than face the consequences?