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  •  Bait and Switch (none / 0)

    Remember the military chaplain arrested and accused of aiding terrorists in Guantanamo?  There was a big to do in the press, but in reality, the only charges against him seemed to be some porn on his work computer.  Obviously bad behavior for a man of the cloth, but not treason.  However, the image of muslim terrorists in our own backyards is a pretty powerful piece of propaganda.  Curious stuff.

    Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it only changes form.

    by SME in Seattle on Fri May 07, 2004 at 02:59:16 AM PDT

    •  Captain Yee (none / 0)

      They even ended up dropping the "unauthorized use" of the computer, apparently even that turned out to be someone else's porn.  Yet they succeeded in ruining his life.

      I see us sliding into things, internment camps, show trials, etc, that I had believed that we had relegated to our past.  I simplistically accepted the notion of the progress of human liberty in the US, that we had learned, finally, the lessons of the Trail of Tears, of the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII, of the nightmare of McCarthyism.  Yet now from around every corner I see those same things skulking back into our social order, thoroughly wrapped in the American flag.

      MA-02

      by Dancing Larry on Fri May 07, 2004 at 03:09:08 AM PDT

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    •  Yes (none / 0)

      My official position (as in "honey, go to bed and stop looking stuff up on google, you're getting weird") is that in when the media gets all breathless and sends out the sat. trucks, they should at least MENTION who is who.

      Obviously one could draw any number of possible conclusions. The fact the media didn't even BOTHER to observe that attorney Thomas Nelson is the same guy suing the Army really frustrates me.

      Thanks for your comment.

      by stilwell on Fri May 07, 2004 at 08:49:14 AM PDT

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