Date: 4/17/2005 9:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 43807
terrorist. Crazy dude.  |
Date: 4/17/2005 9:41:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 12341
No different than any foreign terrorist in my opinion.  |
Date: 4/17/2005 9:46:00 PM
From Authorid: 48250
Just Because Some may Call Themselves a Christian,,, does not mean they are...just as You stated, he murdered Others' Regardless, just as the Muslim Bombers do not represent Islam... It is very sad, indeed Someone would Commit such Heinous in the name of Christianity and Proclaim to be a Christian or Islam either one... Thank for sharing!...T/C  |
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Date: 4/17/2005 9:51:00 PM
From Authorid: 48250
I Agree, Brenda,, seems no different than any other terrorist...T/C |
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Date: 4/17/2005 10:00:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 12341
He hides behind religion in my opinion. Doesn't matter what religion he is, he is still a terrorist and deserves punishment based on his acts. Would we be so condecending if he were Middle Eastern? |
Date: 4/17/2005 10:06:00 PM
From Authorid: 63077
To turn this into a race issue is stupid. He's a terrorist, but his actions were purely domestic. Nothing he did involved any entity outside the border, so it was treated like a homeland case. That's why the death penalty was traded away. Usually they do that, because if a defendant is to be executed when they plead guilty, there's really no motivation to plead guilty. Were he from the Middle East, that'd be different, so long as he wasn't a citizen or if he in some way worked with organizations outside our borders. However, race isn't an issue, it's pretty clear. This also, while an accurate account depicting the facts, sounds more like an editorial than a report. No two ways about it, though, he's a terrorist. USMC0705  |
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Date: 4/17/2005 10:11:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 12341
I only asked if he were a terrorist, not how stupid or even if this was a race issue, which race has nothing to do with origin or culture...Middle Eastern is what race? |
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Date: 4/17/2005 10:14:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 12341
But we do agree he is a terrorist, foriegn or domestic, he's a terrorist, so we treat them differently? |
Date: 4/17/2005 10:34:00 PM
From Authorid: 34487
He calls himself a Christian but he doesn't represent one. I would definitely say he is a terrorist though, no doubt about that.  |
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Date: 4/17/2005 10:43:00 PM
From Authorid: 63077
Middle Eastern isn't a race, you're right. My choice of words was poor. I'm just saying that, yes, he is being treated differently because he wasn't part of a large organization, nor did he have any ability to strike from without. USMC0705 |
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Date: 4/17/2005 10:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 63077
Oh, and that instead of race, one could substitute descendancy in. One of the points in that was that if all the circumstances were the same, but he was of Middle Eastern descent, he wouldn't be treated any differently. Whether or not he would seemed to be implied in the question. USMC0705 |
Date: 4/17/2005 10:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 28946
Fanatics scare me. IMO, he is a terrorist.  |
Date: 4/17/2005 11:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 20750
I think he is a terrorist!  |
Date: 4/18/2005 1:05:00 AM
From Authorid: 18516
He is a terrorist and I was at the 1996 atlanta olympics. Altho I wasn't there the day that that happened luckily.  |
Date: 4/18/2005 2:56:00 PM
From Authorid: 13729
I think in the eyes of the Justice Department you have to be foreign to be a "radical" terrorist....Also, I think they cut a deal with him because they desparetely wanted a confession to the Atlanta bombing.....Tim McViegh, was a terrorist?...Or just a bomber?........  |
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Date: 4/18/2005 8:34:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 12341
A bomber, a terrorist? How does it matter when human lives are the target. In this country, we have learning, we have laws, we have been taught as children, right and wrong. Foriegn or domestic, a bomber, a killer, a terrorist, are they not all the same. The Justice Department may have wanted to "cut a deal", but that is wrong when we look at the victims and why they were targeted, if indeed that is true. In this country, we feel "safe", and perhaps that is misguided, because whether we attend Special Olympics or Universal Studios, we have, in all parts of our worlds, become accustomed to feeling, "safe", regardless of where we live. Actually Ritzbe, I think he was a fanatic. Insane and yet sane, cold hearted and misguided. Followed something evil inside himself that, thankfully, most others never take innocent lives because of their own interpretation of life and how others should be used as a "sacrifice" to teach a lesson. What a pity they don't use themselves instead of innocent children and others who have nothing to do with their "causes" and "issues", instead they leave this legacy of killing, almost always innocent victims, most always children, and sometimes stay within out prison system, further plotting and sometimes gathering even more support. They simply use religion as an excuse, it has no place in the evil they perpetrate on innocent victims. |
