The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #41788   Message #604550
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
05-Dec-01 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why are we trying to catch Bin Laden?
Subject: RE: BS: Why are we trying to catch Bin Laden?
The very expression "suspected terrorist" assumes that people accused are guilty. The media do it all the time, but it's a lazy and dangerous way of talking.

It leads to people saying things like "I don't care about protecting the rights of terrorists" when what they are in effect saying is that they don't care about protecting the rights of people who are not terorists, but who for some reason or other may have come under suspicion. Which could be any of us.