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To: tejek who wrote (139236)	9/21/2001 3:33:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580645

1 - Lynchings - Doesn't happen much any more. Many of them where vigilante actions. The victims of the lynchings were most often people who where thought guilty of a crime. In some cases they were not guilty of anything. (or not guilty of a serious enough crime for capital punishment to be at all reasonable). In all cases they were denied due process of law. But except in the cases where the lynching was done just out of hatred or to sow fear there is little connection to the recent terrorist attacks. 2 - Cross burning and "antics" and desecration - Biggest difference is that they where not murderous. 3 - Burning of black churches - My understanding is there was no recent wave of black church burning. That is not to say that black churches did not burn but so did white churches and non churches. The overall arson rate and the rate of each of these categories did not go up significantly in recent years. 4 - Beating to death - One murder out of hatred. Not a continuing campaign of death and terror. 5 - A more important point for all of the above - I didn't say Americans do not have hatred. But the fact that Americans can hate and kill doesn't mean that it is wrong to condemn others who hate and kill, esp. when they do so on such a large scale. I condemn hatred and esp. murder no matter who does it. The topics you have bought up were "How do you know they hate?" (Which I think I answered) and "Our military does bad things too". None of the above where actions by the US military, let alone recent continuing actions that are part of the policy of our government or military. I do think that a line from the bible is very apt here: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". This is probably apt when talking about a harshly punishing a person who had committed adultery. (like in the case where this quote comes from). It is not relevant to a case where someone has committed murder on multiple occasions and is planning to do it again. I am not without sin, but I would not hesitate to throw any stone that would help stamp out Al-Qaida. Tim