Politics: Double Standard
This item does the explaining. It sounds like a double standard to me. If an Arab American were discovered with 30 explosive devices, light-armor rockets, hand grenades, a 5-gallon gasoline bomb, .50-caliber machine guns, sniper rifles and a typed list of 50 synagogues with plans for their destruction in his house, I have a strong hunch that he would be charged with violating the USA Patriot Act, RICO, jaywalking statutes and abducting the Lindbergh baby. Then, of course, he would be locked up tight and left to rot without an attorney, a judge, or a trial, citizen or not. Somehow, this guy in Florida gets 12½ to 15. The impression is clearly left that targeting Muslims is somehow not as much of a crime. Just like it used to be okay to beat on a black man in the South.
Now 12½ to 15 is no slap on the wrist. It is roughly equivalent to the plea bargain deals obtained by members of the Lackawanna, NY terrorists. But it isn't anything like Jose Padilla's permanent incarceration.
This item does the explaining. It sounds like a double standard to me. If an Arab American were discovered with 30 explosive devices, light-armor rockets, hand grenades, a 5-gallon gasoline bomb, .50-caliber machine guns, sniper rifles and a typed list of 50 synagogues with plans for their destruction in his house, I have a strong hunch that he would be charged with violating the USA Patriot Act, RICO, jaywalking statutes and abducting the Lindbergh baby. Then, of course, he would be locked up tight and left to rot without an attorney, a judge, or a trial, citizen or not. Somehow, this guy in Florida gets 12½ to 15. The impression is clearly left that targeting Muslims is somehow not as much of a crime. Just like it used to be okay to beat on a black man in the South.
Now 12½ to 15 is no slap on the wrist. It is roughly equivalent to the plea bargain deals obtained by members of the Lackawanna, NY terrorists. But it isn't anything like Jose Padilla's permanent incarceration.
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