Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2001 05:42 schrieb J. R. Molloy:
> From: "Kai Becker" <kmb@kai-m-becker.de>
>
> > Now, who exactly is "they"? Don't we first have to find out, before we
> > can actually speak about "members of their group"?
>
> Unless you've been in a coma for the last three months, I should think it
> would be obvious that "they" are the terrorist groups (bin Laden, et al.)
> who contrived the September 11, 2001 attack.
Oh, I'm sorry. It's so easy then. Just raid the offices of Al'Qaeda in the
US and get their member lists...
I repeat: Who _exactly_ are "they"? What are the criteria? Which of the 276
mio. persons in the US are "members of their group"? What about the
"presumption of innocence"? (I hope this is the right term)
You may want to read some articles about how these people of 9-11 lived the
last years. And you may come to the conclusion that you wouldn't get every
one of them if you'd imprison every person with muslim background. Again:
even if you would detain every person with a muslim background, you still
wouldn't be safe.
The pilots and helpers of the 9-11 incident have lived and studied legally
in Germany for years. One of them was even born in Germany. They didn't
raise any suspicion. They had no problems with the authorities. They came
legally into the USA (although they must have lied when filling in the
immigration form - "are you a member of a terrorist group"...) and even got
their pilot licenses legally.
What kind of "police work" could find them without making the whole country
a police state?
Kai
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