Ms. Smith Goes to Washington

April 27, 2006

Bush's Law

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
by Shirley Smith

BuzzFlash,  

This Bush GOP government can't come up with one clean trial for terrorism. Not one. As far as I can tell, this kid didn't do anything. Didn't kill anyone. He is being put to jail because he is supposed to have attended a terrorist training camp ... well, what is that "School of the Americas" that is protested every year? We train terrorists to go back and commit assassinations in their own country. Protesters just went to jail recently.  

A federal jury Tuesday convicted a 23-year-old Lodi man of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and returning to the United States to commit violent jihad against his fellow citizens.

Hamid Hayat, a Pakistani American born in Stockton, was found guilty of one count of providing material support for terrorism and three counts of lying to the FBI. He faces up to 39 years in prison at a sentencing hearing set for July 14. (snip)

A thin, frail man in an ill-fitting black suit, Hayat listened to the proceedings through an Urdu interpreter, showing no reaction when the string of guilty verdicts was announced. His attorney, Wazhma Mojaddidi, an Afghan American trying her first criminal case, slumped forward in her seat and briefly put her head in her arms.

Mojaddidi said later that she would seek a new trial. "Hamid Hayat never attended a terrorist training camp," she said. "The fight is definitely not over."  

Conviction for Son, Mistrial for Father in Lodi Terror Case - Los Angeles Times  

Gawd, lying to our FBI. I don't trust our FBI, CIA, GOP, not under the Bush GOP, do I trust any of them ... have I missed anybody? The fact that they could send somebody to jail for this, should sound all kinds of alarms, but Americans just think it's okay, because these are people from other countries and all the Bush GOP have to do, regardless of any evidence of wrong doing, is mention the word, terrorist. I'm as sick of this GOP and their violent verbiage as I was sick of the same GOP who constantly, every single day, attacked Clinton. All these people know how to do is punish and abuse the weak. If we have another terrorist attack, it will harm Americans, but it will help Bush, so they aren't going to go after any real terrorists, are they? Bin Laden, gee, he sends up tapes all of the time, conveniently for Bush, since it always takes him and his criminal regime off any news.  

We should weep for ourselves and what we have allowed this country to become. These trials, these false trials make enemies for us, as if this country needs any more enemies since Bush was put into the White House, and yet, we spend millions protecting Bush's ass, but, he is far from protecting us. He is the reason we have so many enemies today. If the American people really want to fight terrorism, then they need to impeach Bush and his whole administration. That is the best way to fight terrorism and show the world that we are not like that criminal group. They don't represent the majority of the American people. Bush never represented the majority of the American people, ever.

Thanks, BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

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