Letters to the Editor
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Equal to 9/11
Now the ELF can very well be considered terroristic...but would you consider them to be on the same level of the 9/11 perpetrators? No?
Yes.
They are roughly equal.
The 9/11 conspirators died for their cause. The ELF conspirators tried to get away with their crimes.
The ELF people did not kill anyone, but that was more by good luck than judgement.
I suspect that the motive of the 9/11 terrorists was primarily to destroy the twin towers and other important buildings of symbolic value. Killing people was a by-product of their actions rather than the main purpose. If they had just wanted to kill as many people as possible there were other things they could have done that would have killed more people.
Many of the people killed by 9/11 were firemen. I doubt whether Al Quaida had planned to kill firemen. The ELF conspirators might have killed firemen too. Probably they gave it no thought either. Lucky for them they didn't kill any firemen, otherwise they would be in the same boat as Timothy McVeigh.
So the only question remains as to whether Briana Waters is an innocent stooge or a co-conspirator. Considering that her boy friend at the time of the fire bombing is a fugitive from justice, if she is innocent, it seems to me that it is incumbent on him to come forward and testify on her behalf.
But then he is no gentleman. And probably she is no lady.