RE: U.S. Man Accused of Plotting to Blow Up Pipelines

[Andy Sutton <newslists () pessimists net>]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:06 +0300, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
> The bastard is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 
> Then I sincerely hope he's executed, if proven guilty beyond a shadow
> of a resonable doubt. 

I'm with you on the first part, but what's up with the second part?
> From the posted article:

"faces six charges including attempting to support al Qaeda; plotting to
damage an interstate gas pipeline; distributing instructions on making
explosives over the Internet; and possession of hand grenades."

About the only truly serious thing I see there is the hand grenade part.
All the rest could easily be the ranting (or attempted scamming) from an
unemployed and broke loony with a history of issues who was dumb enough
to soliciting for money in a chatroom monitored by a vigilante.  We
don't know any of the facts, so isn't calling for death a bit much?

http://tinyurl.com/2xvs3q

Don't get me wrong.  I'm all for defending ourselves, but all this
hysteria of "terror" is really starting to make me ill.  It's almost up
there with "save the children" at this point, and will eventually bite
us in the nickers.
-- 
- Andy

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without getting attacked with a flamethrower.
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