[MichiganConservative]

These people go free cause it was a "joke"?
Wasn't sending powdered sugar and claiming it was anthrax a "joke" a few months ago?
Aren't they prosecuting people over the Anthrax hoaxes? Oh, I tink they are!!!
If these terrorists, cause that's what they are, get off, it will be a MASSIVE miscarriage of justice. Write Ashcroft. Write the AG of Florida. If all else fails, secede.
If I were to try this type of "joke", my white butt would be in prison faster than you could say "double standard"!

[bootless]

Good point.

We cannot allow a fear of being labeled "racist" to keep citizens from being aware of their surroundings. We can't allow that fear to keep us from the realm of reality. While much of the country has gone back to sleep, there are still some people who will not be sheep.

[LADY J]

"If these terrorists, cause that's what they are, get off, it will be a MASSIVE miscarriage of justice. Write Ashcroft. Write the AG of Florida. If all else fails, secede. If I were to try this type of "joke", my white butt would be in prison faster than you could say "double standard"!"

Governor Bush is calling for them to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[glorygirl]

Again, the cops in South Florida are equal opportunity when it comes to traffic stops.

But they are good cops. Imho, writing to Ashcroft isn't the way to solve this problem. Neither the cops nor the media are at fault, and I don't believe Eunice was lying either.

1. The cops in South Florida get the info from the cops in Georgia. What do they do? In this age of the "Amber Alert" and 9/11, of course they are going to release it to the media.

2. The media gets information that the tag on one of the cars belongs to a stolen car. This could have come from the cops in Georgia or Fla., neither of which has immediate access to updated license info in Illinois. This is a common occurrence when agencies in two different states are involved. But of course the media is going to report a story like this, why shouldn't it, given the circumstances?

3. How many middle-aged women have you seen in your life go on TV and make something up, just for the sake of getting on TV, especially when they are not accused of any crime and won't make any money as a result? Perhaps there have beens some on the tabloid shows, but I haven't seen any. I suppose it is possible she could be suffering from some kind of weird mental syndrome, but I think that's highly unlikely.

Of course these guys are going to lie to the media, that's in their best interest, whether they were joking or not, whether they were terrorists or not, and whether or not they lied to police.

What is Ashcroft going to do? Put three people in jail on the word of one person,without any hard evidence? Think about that for a moment, forgetting all the race questions.

Everybody needs to calm down for a couple of minutes.

And could somebody in Florida please confirm that these people were traveling east on Alligator Alley when they were stopped? Thanks. Just want to make sure they didn't manage to drop something off there first.