Catherine McKay wrote: > --- vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have heard some credible arguments on Amy > > Goodman's > > > Democracy Now (left wing radio at it's finest) > > that witnesses > > > including a pizza delivery guy saw McVeigh in a > > hotel room with > > > some middle-eastern looking men. So maybe he > > didn't act alone. > > > We should probably just bomb everything to be on > > the safe side. > > > > Or at least bomb hotels? Hotels where pizzas are > > delivered? > > > > As Pete Seger said, when will they ever learn... > > > > "middle eastern looking men." In the terrorism of > > late 1919 through the early > > 1920s, it was "Italian looking men" who were the > > constant suspects, they were all > > terrorists, after all. Thus Sacco and Vanzetti got > > executed and thousands of > > Italians were deported. What is happening today is > > nothing new. > > Vince, I'm glad you brought this up, because I was > going to respond the first time the issue of the pizza > delivery guy came up, but didn't get around to it. If > a person can be thought of as "guilty" just because > they *look* middle-Eastern/Italian/whatever, then God > help us all. Shortly after Sept 11/01, when people > were spotting white powder everywhere (I've told you > about my own experience with this last October, on a > day when it seems lots of people in Toronto made > similar discoveries), I had some of my staff coming to > me worried about the "middle-Eastern"-looking courier > guy we had, or the delivery guy with the turban, or > whatever. It just so happens that a number of the > couriers we use are freelancers who work for this one > company and they drive their own cars and they don't > wear uniforms and, yeah, some of them are > "Arab-looking" or "Middle-Eastern-looking", or maybe > even "Italian-looking" or they've got dark skin and > beards and gee, some of them wear turbans. And all of > a sudden they're all potential terrorists? And the > pizza-delivery guy, who would most likely be ignored > in normal times, becomes this apparently credible > witness all of a sudden,
Wait. We're not talking about demonizing all "Arab-looking" people. We're talking about people who were seen with Timothy McVeigh shortly before the bombing. Hopefully you read the articles Kakki posted. There were several people who saw this. If nothing else, it bears looking into, but for some reason, the authorities seem to be ignoring it or covering it up. Timothy McVeigh said he acted alone. They didn't waste any time executing him. Makes you wonder. We can't be so PC that even identifying someone's appearance is considered racism. The subject of racial profiling is an entirely different one. The feds have arrested, detained, and mistreated alot of people of middle eastern descent since Sept. 11, and continue to cover it up, for which there is no excuse. RR > because people are looking > for something to hang their fear on. How frightening. > > ===== > Catherine > Toronto
