Isn't the real problem the fear-mongering, the fact that all too often these days, the rhetoric around these anti-terror arrests doesn't fit the charges? Is it the first time we've seen officials get overstimulated when announcing terrorism charges?
So why is is that, in so many terror cases, prosecutors seem to go out of their way to make alleged bad guys sound scarier than they are?
These four terrorist bozos schemed to blow up fuel tanks and a fuel pipeline at JFK Airport; not passenger terminals or airplanes.
Don't some cops and prosecutors like to turn their targets into superheroes? Doesn't it help to justify their hard work and make life more interesting?
So, every time the government is found to be embellishing its case, doesn't the public lose a little bit of faith?
I know that we always laughed at some local headline about a "pot bust," when we knew that the weed involved was "ditch weed" at best...but that "street value" figure always looks good in print...
2007-06-05
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