Letters to the Editor
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Yes...
she is a terrorist...even for "just" being a lookout. Much in the same way that a man who finances a group of relatives/countrymen who live in the US and attend flight school is a terrorist when those nice clean-cut young men decide to use them as over-sized weapons. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were still talking in hyperbole. No? Okay. To act those Briana Waters is a victim of over-zealous, post-9/11 fury only further trivializes the agrument made by some for are (admittedly) eroding civil liberties. Let's discuss the issues where truly innocent people are being subjected to less than pleasant (if not illegal) treatment. Leave the pity for someone worthy.
What if the building had been occupied? What if the professor's research would have allowed us to repopulate the devastated rain forest with indigenous plant life? Your story's victim is no victim at all. It's like the ELF members who burn housing development or vandalize construction sites with spray paint. How exactly are you saving the environment? Surely not from the hydrofluorocarbons released into the atmosphere with that spray paint, not to mention the additional toxic fumes released in the fires. Those people are more twisted than the Edwards advocating the plight of the impoverished. Hyporcites living happily in denial. And Tracy Tullis should be ashamed for espousing if not advancing the same strategic principles she despises in the same article, using fear to accomplish your goals. There is no more a big brother out your window, than there is a terrorist next door. And thank God that if the latter is true, hopefully so is the former, protecting you.