Terrorism is not a criminal problem. Timothy McVeigh was one
guy acting
witha couple of others. If there was a nationwide network
of people blowing
up buildings in an attempt to destabilize and ultimately
take control of the
country, you better damn well believe that would be more
than a criminal
problem. It would be civil war.
On 4/30/06, Gruss Gott <grussgott gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > RoMunn wrote:
> > Ha, not so fast. Remember the Civil War? Lincoln
suspended habeus
> corpus.
> > Remember WWII? FDR instituted Japanese-American
internment camps. The
> govt
> > has always taken extraordinary measures during
times of conflict.
> >
>
> Then that defines our differences. I don't see
terrorism as a war
> just as I don't see that there's a "war on
drugs". That's just a
> convenient excuse to suppress liberties and expand
government power.
>
> Terrorism is a crime problem. Did we declare war on
Tim McVeigh? And
> if terrorism IS a war why hasn't congress declared
War? And if they
> wanted to, who would they declare it on?
>
> i.e., it's crime, not war. International crime, but
not war.
>
>
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