will the real terrorists please stand up?

[brad]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/04/jd....ap/index.html

[andyfox]

What do you mean by real terrorists?

[brad]

i just mean gee wiz white house admits they put out disinformation on possible terrorists attacks to boost image of bush/administration but no one publicizes a group plotting political assasinations because they are a protected minority group.

also certain 'right wing' groups, eg, gun rights groups, have been labelled 'nazi' and 'anti-semetic', when, ironically enough, the leader of the group in question was himself a jew!


anyway i can see the media taking a wait and see approach but once the guy pleads guilty or whatever and admits it, then i would think this would be front page headlines.

seriously, shouldnt they be labelled terrorists for plotting to assasinate a congressman?

[brad]

personally i think zionists give all jews a bad name.

[andyfox]

What are Zionists? Zionism was the movement to establish a country for the Jews in Palestine. That movement succeeded. There are no more Zionists. There are Jews and there are Israelis. Calling someone a Zionist makes about as much sense as calling someone a Whig or a Mugwump.

I have been very critical, on this forum, of the policies of the early and later Zionists, and of the state of Israel. I believe the Palestinians received, and continue to receive, a raw deal from the Zionist movement and from Israel.

Perhaps I'm missing your point.

[brad]

'Perhaps I'm missing your point.'

just stirring up trouble i thought it was interesting.

remember pat buchanan was labelled racist for questioning our foreign policy relation to another country.

[John Ho]

What about the settlers in the occupied territories? Maybe you call them something else but calling them Zionists isn't far off base.

For example, if there was no Israel and we decided to create one measuring one square block in Palestine would there no longer be Zionists? Does the fact that a nation called Israel exists mean they are satisfied with what they have? The whole tenet is Zionism is the belief that certain lands are God given to the Jews.

The Zionists aren't satisfied yet. Those are the extremists, though. This does not go for all Jews or Israelis.

[andyfox]

Do you have a link on the White House admitting they lied about possible terrorist attacks for PR purposes? I would think a move would be underfoot in Congress for impeachment.

The arrest of the JDL people was very big news here in L.A. Mr. Rubin's activities have been decried for years by the L.A. ADL and the L.A. Times covered the story extensively.

What is a protected minority group?

Who has labeled gun rights groups Nazis and anti-Semitic?

The JDL is a fringe group without a big membership. When Mr. Rubin died, it did make the front page here in L.A. One can hardly expect the other guy pleading guilty to be page one headline news during this week of the space shuttle tragedy and Bush's and Powell's speeches. It's a minor story under any circumstances.

They have always been labeled as terrorists by many civic and religious groups here in L.A. The description has always seemed apt to me.

[brad]

'Do you have a link on the White House admitting they lied about possible terrorist attacks for PR purposes'

yes this was in a mainstream newspaper, although maybe it was like the washington post or something. (somebody told me thats a real rag i dont know).

i can look for it if you want but im 100% sure i read it although im not 100% sure it was that cut and dried (ie, 'whitehouse lies for pr purposes') but as i remember it it was pretty cut and dried.

--

but my point is, can u imagine if someone linked to any arab group was plotting assassination of congressman? there would be editorials in all newspapers about jihad and how we need to invade (whatever country he was from or represented)

[andyfox]

No doubt an Arab extremist plot would get greater press coverage. The supposedly pro-Palestinian bent of the "liberal" U.S. media is a myth.