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by Bradley Elfman » Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:00 pm
it is a sad & tragic sign of our times that find people who normally seem reasonable justifying murdering innocent people in the name of an abstract purpose. Where would this end if we continue. What kind of world would we be living in if we continually justified killing innocent people. If the "bad guys", whoever they may be, perpetrated this crime, they would be called cowards and terrorists themselves.
As pointed out by Etienne, it is even more tragic as these are "trained" professionals who should have been protecting, not killing. I think as soon as the story broke, we all knew there was no bomb. One person reports a mentally ill man whose English speaking skills were probably very limited, has a bomb, and he is now all but dead, like a violent video game, and shot by men who could not be identified by their uniform, as they did not wear one, who could have easily and quietly apprehended the murder victim and his luggage while he was still alive, and who should have been speaking in Spanish, as the plane was coming from Columbia.
It is not surprising that Air Marshalls see themselves as modern cowboys, Wyatt Earps in a lawless land; but it is sad that others justify their actions, setting the stage for continued murder of innocent people by the "authorities", where "authorized personnel" can shoot whomever they please whenever they please in the name of fighting terrorists or whatever current official rationale has been created, as did the British police recently who held a man down in the subway, then shot him eight times, while it turned out, as in this case, all facts given by the authorities were proved wrong by all witnesses and videos, thus setting the stage for legalized murder in Miami; and once again the media distorted the facts in the name of patriotism.
The facts: an innocent man is dead, while his murderers are now free to kill again; and maybe next time one of your family, wfe, husband, children, mother, father... travels on an airplane, some passenger will report a bomb and you will probably not respond the same when the justified murder is reported that one of your family has been shot and killed.
Hey who cares. He was only some immigrant!
