So, I ask again, where is the new 44-Deuce? A unit made up of Americans of Muslim faith willing to fight for the Honor of America in battle against an enemy that calls itself Muslim? Where?
There is no new 44-Deuce CBT BDE!
There will be no new 44-Deuce CBT BDE!
I think that says it all. Draw from it what you may.
ABC News announced that the government has presented information leading to the federal indictment of eleven men who had trained in the woods of Fairfax County, Virginia with “AK-47” style assault weapons. According to the government, the men had also participated in warlike paintball games to practice military tactics in Spotsylvania County and had practiced shooting at various shooting ranges.
There is the main paragraph describing what they are accused of. OK, well gee. That's not much. I mean I go to the boonies near where I live and shoot semi-autos. I don't play paintball, but some of the fellows I shoot with do. They certainly 'practice military tactics' when playing paintball, that's the key to the game as I understand it. And finally I belong to two gun clubs and shoot at both of them regularly, again often with the same friends who play paintball. Nothing described in this paragraph (which is designed to sound sinister and evil "AK-47" being a code word for "evil, bad" to most liberals) appears to be remotely illegal to me.
Here it says what they are actually CHARGED with:
has been charged with a variety of firearms violations and attempting to mount a military attack against a friendly nation, India.
OKAY. What"firearms violations?" Could we get a little more specific? Some technical violation of the 20,000 gun laws? And then of course there is "attempting to mount a military attack against a friendly nation, India"
Leaving aside the question of whether India is really a friendly nation what evidence do they have that they were attempting to mount a military attack? Does shooting AK's and playing paintball now constitute de-facto proof of attempting a military attack?
I see a lot of people jumping to conclusions here. I for one would like to see a lot more evidence before I agree that these people are part of a conspiracy to attack India. Where they organizing logistics? Were they in contact with people there? Remmeber the FBI and assorted three letter agencies have a pretty bad record for missing the mark on finding terrorists. This includes amazing things like overlooking the Chinese spy working for them for 10 years as well as falsly accusing lots of people (Atlanta bombing, Waco, FBI Crime Lab, etc.) of crimes they had nothing to do with.
Nothing in the above set of comments should be interpreted as the author having any sympathy for actual terroists or the Islamic or Islamist religion or political movements. I do not. But even for people with names like "Mohammed" I believe the American standard "innocent until proven guilty" applies. Lets see some proof, then hang em' high.