Jim,
The FBI "10 Most Wanted" list did not exist at the time of Pearl
Harbor. It started in 1949. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives
This would seem like a minor point except it was a basis of your retort
to Shane.
Shane was asking you to confront WHY bin Laden failed to appear on the
list for the 9/11 horror, given the magnitude of the crime. Could it be
that they did NOT have the goods to indict bin Laden, and millions of
people suffered and died in that falsely-based retaliation?
Paul
On 8/20/2011 3:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:53:18 -0700 From: Jim Devine
<[email protected]> me:
> The FBI most wanted list used to be totally about alleged domestic
> criminals. It's only recently that alleged international criminals
> (like Osama) were added.
Shane Mage wrote:
> One murder in New York is a domestic crime. ?Three thousand murders in
> New York is what?
It was a domestic crime (allegedly) committed by an (alleged)
international criminal. But in truth, in the case of 911, it was part
of an on-going war.[*] Of course, civilian casualties are crimes, even
during wars.
Things have changed: the Japanese leaders who organized the attack on
Pearl Harbor weren't put on the FBI "10 Most Wanted" list, even though
they killed a bunch of people in the US during a time of official
peace. Nowadays, the "war against crime" and actual war have merged,
as the International Criminal Court in the Hague is used as a weapon
against the leaders of countries which the US policy elite hates,
using "human rights" rhetoric and the like against "our" friends while
leaving US allies off the hook. (Bush #2 also got the US itself
exempted from prosecution.) So it's only natural that the "10 Most
Wanted" list would go international, complementing the US war effort.
[*] an undeclared war, yes, but explicitly declaring war went out of
fashion due to the Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928.
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