"100 Times"
There, that's prideful ownership of responsibility of actions taken as a result of commitment. Guilty not once, but by a factor of one hundred. And what will you do about it? Read the malefactor his rights and proceed to hold trial. But if he has admitted guilt, and proudly so, why bother with a trial? The evidence is there, and more than augmented by an admission of guilt, so simply sentence the man. It's on the agenda; wait for October."I want to plead guilty 100 times because, unless the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq, until they stop drone strikes in Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen, and stop attacking Muslim lands, we will attack the U.S. and be out to get them."That's pretty unequivocal, isn't it? Yet another American citizen brimming with loathing for the country that gave him haven. The great American way of life, its democratic values and justice system, its transformative opportunities, allowing people to arrive at its shores from countries whose ideologies and totalitarian rulers produce a harrowing existence for its peoples, rejected. By those whose incendiary hatred transform the country to a threat against repressive regimes.
Regimes whose people chafe under exploitative and abusive conditions, but whose hold on people is fully supported by a brand of fanaticism linked to religious intolerance and bigotry against others, culminating in violent jihadist proxies spreading terror globally. Among those of their co-religionists who are deemed to be insufficiently orthodox to the faith, and among those of the world community who reject Islam as a faith representing their interests.
Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad believes in his righteous, God-approving, God-sent mission to destroy the United States. At the very least to sow terror within its population, by destroying as many of its citizens as he could. To his personal misfortune, the training he received in Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban whom his own father's cadres had helped train and arm, was not sufficient to overcome his own personal clumsiness.
Pakistan, the major breeding ground of Wahhabi-style fundamentalist Islam, continues to train and send out jihadis throughout the world. They pop up in Europe, in North America, in Africa and Muslim countries as well. In response to the global call to Muslims to take up the work of Allah, to destroy the infidel, the Jew and contemptible apostates. This man, yet another naturalized American citizen, brought his loathing and contempt to the battle, and failed.
There are many more standing ready and able and determined to take up where he left off.
Labels: Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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