Posted by Jay on June 7, 2006, at 19:52:26 [reposted on June 12, 2006, at 6:27:39 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Canadian Terrorists.... » Jay, posted by Larry Hoover on June 7, 2006, at 15:37:52
> > But the alleged terrorists, it seems, remained blissfully ignorant. They let themselves get snared in an RCMP sting when one of the 17 allegedly placed an order for three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, a substance that can be used to make bombs.
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> It doesn't matter how incompetent they are. If nothing else, they must be made an example of. Some criminal law is all about deterrent. This is a prime example thereof.
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> The RCMP did not conduct a sting operation. They protected us from plans laid out entirely by these men themselves.
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> 3 tonnes of ammonium nitrate is thrice that used to bring down virtually an entire office block in Oklahoma. I don't think Timothy McVeigh really understood the significance of what he was doing, either. And *he* was trained in explosives by the military.
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>Sorry Lar, but I think this is a ploy that Harper's government in part has used to , just in time, drum up support for the war in Afghanistan and the Canadian "Anti-Terror Laws"...which happen to be at about time for their review in Parliament. I agree the book should be thrown at the people involved..I am not trying to prove them innocent. But I refuse to let the Conservatives use this as a tool to make a "Canadian Patriot Act" and turn Afghanistan into Iraq.
As said in the posted article, the RCMP *KNEW* about what was going on likely before even most of the teen members of this pathetic group even knew what was going on. The RCMP sold them white powder..not fertilizer, which if you had seen a few other articles in today's papers, was shown that it would be very hard, in particular for a non-farmer, to buy anywhere near 3 tonnes of this stuff in Ontario. Did you read the comments by some of the "participant terrorists"? Oh boy...one got all excited because the leader "..took them out for pizza..." and was all nice and warm and fuzzy. If they where VERY lucky...they could have earned their Boy Scout badges (the basic ones, anyways!) But, that might have been beyond their reach.
But...the logic must stand. Thinking about doing something does in no way carry the weight of actually carrying it out. Especially when your *means* of doing so are next to nothing. Politicians, of all stripes, like to use fear and rhetoric in overblown ways to scare their constituents into doing what, eventually, they ever want. The media is almost as guilty, as it sells "good copy".
Maybe they shouldn't have told of their "Canadian Domination" plans while running through the goldfish ponds and playing paintball to the 15 or so farmers who not only reported them last winter, but told them to get a life! Musta been the pizza...lol..
Jay
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