"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Please read context. Michael started referring to everyone
detained as if they were actual members of terrorist groups.
> > What about this Oklahoma lunatic, for example. Who was "they" in that case?
> > Every white person? Every white christian person? Every person of his home
> > town or state?
>
> Yes, of course... and the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor were just
> "lunatics" like Timothy McVeigh, right? ...and just because some "lunatic"
> Germans bombed Europe and murdered millions of Jews, that was no excuse for
> the Allies to try to take out Hitler and his minions, right?
>
Are you studiously missing the point?
- samantha
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