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To: LindyBill who wrote (32206)	6/12/2002 6:44:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Lindy, the Padilla dirty-bomb terrorist is an American. Why do they hate themselves? He is a native of Noo Yawk and Chicago. A direct descendant of West Side Story. Since he's an American, I'm surprised that he can be held as an enemy combatant. That means the USA is now having their second civil war. Tim McVeigh was therefore an enemy combatant too. Heck, any kid who graffitis a wall becomes an enemy combatant. I think some constitutional lawyers will like to get involved with Padilla's case. Does the USA have habeas corpus? Are Americans entitled to civil trial or is it now a military state where people are tried by a military tribunal as enemy combatants? Are Padillas not real Americans? What the heck makes a person an American anyway? Is that enough questions for you? This whole terrorism business is quite funny really. Look at the characters. They are caricatures but they are real. Yasser Arafat is the original design and one of the best jokes. The shoe bomber was even funnier. We had the box-cutter Atta gang who must have looked funny too, acting nochalant, going through security, but I bet they stuck out like a sore thumb. Going into apply for a grant for crop-dusting, discussing throat cutting, carrying on like the wacko he was. Funnier still were the reported comments of the gender, diversity and culturally-sensitive government department woman who didn't seem put out by the weird discussion with Atta..ck Then there's Osama and whole mullahdom of ranting superstitious mania. Meanwhile, our government is importing terrorist trainees and everyone will be surprised when they do what they like to do. If you let chimps loose in your living room, you shouldn't be surprised when they start throwing the china around. And I'm stuck in the same cage as these people! If that Padilla guy really was associated with Osama's jokesters, then it's very good news that he was trying to get a dirty-bomb into gear. It's good news because that means they don't have the real thing ready to go bang one day. Unless that was a double-cross and he was set up as a decoy. Life's a giggle. The WAT provides plenty of laughs. The characters are larger than life and inadvertently hilarious [on both sides: both those with us and against us, indifferent, a member of the Axis of Evil or not, or, like Pakistan, on both sides simultaneously]. Mqurice PS: Mustn't forget the anthrax epidemic which mowed down half of the USA, delivered from some USA laboratory as part of the civil war. Mention white powder and the crowds go nuts. No more children playing with flour bombs!