Assassinations on U.S. Soil Not Ruled Out by FBI

[damngrumpy]

I have a friend who is an airline pilot for a major airline and he just chuckles when you
mention all the security measures. He pointed out we have spent billions and never
once caught a terrorist.
This law is for the purposes of making people feel good it has no practical application.
I would say shoot a terrorist who is going to kill children except at what point to we
determine someone is in fact a terrorist? We have a dead kid in Florida because a
citizen patrol person thought he looked suspicious. If there was a fight I believe that
Zimmerman provoked it. he had no idea if the kid was a threat, turns out he was
talking to his girlfriend on the phone.
Same goes for a suspected terrorist. The problem is we are seeing more and more
laws encouraging people to be afraid of one another and that is not a good sign it means
the fabric of society is exceedingly thin. Who is a terrorist? a brown person, or black
or oriental? There are some pretty scary white dudes out there running around with guns.
Remember Timothy McVeigh no one suspected he was a terrorist.
We saw what happened when we put tasers in police hands now we want to give them the
power to shoot someone because the suspect he or she is going to commit a crime, no
one sees a problem with that?

 

[Spade]

Remember when the enemy was socialism? Oh, for the good old days!
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[Cliffy]

And is there a law that protects citizens of other lands from government sanctioned terrorism? A million plus dead in Iraq because of foreign intervention. Who the Fnck are the terrorists again?

 

[damngrumpy]

Interesting point Cliffy but then again Bush wanted revenge and what George wants
George gets.
Remember also that America was one of the first nations to demand that war criminals
be punished by international courts. WWII prime example. The problem is that America
does not recognize those courts when it comes to American offenders.
terrorism is in the eyes of he beholder as well. our freedom fighters are their terrorists
and vice verse.

 

[Sparrow]

I really don't think that this law will make anyone feel safer. Imagine if they don't like you face, color or how you dress and act could make you a target. Also if they do kill someone you can be sure you will never know if they were innocent or guilty.

 

[Cliffy]

I really don't think that this law will make anyone feel safer. Imagine if they don't like you face, color or how you dress and act could make you a target. Also if they do kill someone you can be sure you will never know if they were innocent or guilty.

They already do that, you just don't hear about it but people "disappear" or are "suicided" all the time.

 

[WLDB]

But isn't that really what they are talking about. As I said, I'm having a hell of a time trying to think of a scenario when capture isn't feasible.

Yes, so why make this law at all when its already legal for cops to kill if they have to?

This is way too much power to put in government hands.

 

[gopher]

This is a very dangerous thing they're doing. The government killing its own citizens without a trial. Insane. Being killed while resisting arrest is one thing, but a targeted assassination is pretty crazy.

George Clinton, Fred Hampton, Carlos Soto Arrivi, Arnaldo Dario Rosado, Angel Rodriguez Cristobal are examples of dissidents killed by the government via targeted assassinations over the years. Many more were killed in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Right wingers never had any difficulty with the government doing that and, in fact, used to applaud J Edgar Hoover with much fervency and fanfare.

 

[Cliffy]

George Clinton, Fred Hampton, Carlos Soto Arrivi, Arnaldo Dario Rosado, Angel Rodriguez Cristobal are examples of dissidents killed by the government via targeted assassinations over the years. Many more were killed in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Right wingers never had any difficulty with the government doing that and, in fact, used to applaud J Edgar Hoover with much fervency and fanfare.

And Leonard Peltiere is still in jail after 40+ years for something he didn't do.

 

[WLDB]

Right wingers never had any difficulty with the government doing that and, in fact, used to applaud J Edgar Hoover with much fervency and fanfare.

I'd like to think that such a man could not get the power he had in todays world. Probably could though.

 

[gopher]

And Leonard Peltiere is still in jail after 40+ years for something he didn't do.

Leonard's "conviction" and imprisonment in that Florida gulag is one of the greatest injustices in all of human history. What happened to him is worse than what happened to Nelson Mandela under the fascist apartheid regime. Just imagine what would happen if the government suppressed the NAACP or La Raza as it did to AIM. I mean how the fЏck can anyone say that AIM was some kind of subversive group? To this day even the local Republicans in the Twin Cities respect that group because of its honorable and benevolent efforts.