With the TV on as background noise while cooking dinner, I overheard some of CNN’s coverage of the Monty-Pythonesque inept suspected terrorists being caught in Miami. Being too busy with watching a skillet full of chicken wings to change the channel, it segued into Lou “those damn furinners!” Dobbs’ bit on it, w/ his correspondent Susan K saying roughly the following about the men so charged:
“they oppose the war in Iraq, & hate Bush, but they say they have never considered terrorism”
The unspoken assumption here is that thinking the occupation of Iraq is pointless and not being a fan of Bush are mere stepping stones to declaring war on the US from within. Assuming that is not bat-shit insane for a moment, wouldn’t that make the majority of the population potential terror suspects, according to the poll numbers?
Oh, wait, we’re being treated like that already, never mind…
***update: apparently 5 of the 7 are US citizens. How convenient for the continued shredding of the Constitution. “See?!? Your neighbor could be waiting to saw the heads off your children! Shut up and bend over!”
