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To: epicure who wrote (4903)	12/9/2003 2:16:46 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 20773

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When arrested as a terrorist! 5 out of 6000 arrests resulting in long sentences, less than 0.1%. You'd figure they'd do better than that with Madame Zelda of the Psychic Friends Network. With 1 in 7 being guilty of any crime at all (you gotta wonder about how many of these were forced plea bargains), seems like a pretty poor record for the loss of freedom we've paid. upi.com Excerpt: The analysis, carried out by statisticians and long-time law enforcement observers at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse based at Syracuse University, found that in the two years after the Sept. 11 attacks about 6,400 people were referred to prosecutors in connection with terrorism or terrorist offenses. But of the 2,681 cases that had been wrapped up by the end of September 2003, some 879 were convicted of a crime and less than half of those -- 373 -- were sent to prison. Five received sentences of 20 years or more, which was actually fewer than in the two years before Sept. 11.