Posted on 10/17/2007 7:18:06 PM PDT by Lorianne
I thought it has been established that mishandling secret documents rates a fine and probation, the Sandy Berger precedent?
All these folks have to do is to become registered ‘rats and all will be forgiven.
Should have “conspired” with the NY slimes, no way that gets prosecuted.
Perhaps these guys took their oath “all enemies, foreign and domestic” seriously.
We need more like them.
save
Adapt and overcome.
Bump.
What about the Sandy Burgler precedent for “punishment”?
I say BOTH.
And in this case it's the perfect combination.
There mistake was in violating the rules of the system to augment the system. Were they properly vigilantes, they would have taken the entire process into their own hands.
That is, having obtained information about al-Qaeda personnel operating in the United States, essentially verification that they were indeed al-Qaeda and planning to commit criminal acts and possibly even terrorism, they should have remained outside of the system to “close the deal”. Most likely resulting in the demise of the al-Qaeda, in an unremarkable manner.
This would only happen if one had been identified, with enough evidence so that their guilt was unmistakable, and that they and their cohorts were neither continuing to produce intelligence information of value, nor were they going to be interfered with by the authorities.
In other words, the government had solid proof that they were al-Qaeda, had committed or were going to commit acts against the US, were no longer of intelligence gathering value, quite possibly may be planning to carry out attacks, *and* still, the government had no intention of stopping them.
At that point, intervention is justified by vigilantes.
So again the military types will sufer while the politicians skate free.Mind blowing to say the least.
Suffer
I thought so too. Guess it depends ....
INteresting.
“One possibility is that the conspirators all suffer from hyperactive imaginations. Reinforced by a group-think process that swirled out of control, they might have dreamed up an al Qaeda threat inside U.S. territory that the rest of the nation’s law enforcement community just didn’t see.”
Yea, that’s always a possibility. Like the FBI agent who was running around saying terrorists were gonna fly planes into big buildings. What a nut.
The Declaration of Independence itself says that when government gets out of line, we have a right to step up and change what is happening.
But our government doesnt like competition or challenges. Just like King George.
to read later
From what has been given—these Patriots are Both Patriot and vigilant. I could not punish them for use of the material at hand —to do what our government ought be doing—but seems to not be doing. Perhaps they had encouragement (black ops?) IMO the deciding factor would
be did they remove any of the bad guys.did they decrease
the threat?
AM bttt
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