“These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey’s Fort Dix. And those actions have raised questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not have otherwise followed.” (Emphasis mine).
The words above are the second and third paragraphs of an AP article published today, and they exemplify so clearly the mindset of what passes for modern day “fair law” practices. Informants Scrutinized in Fort Dix Case is an attempt by an organization of allegedly fair journalists to place blame on the good guys and make the criminals appear the victims.
I have always been wary of the entrapment charge, don’t get me wrong. Some young guy ties one on and walks home only to be confronted by a hot looking woman throwing herself at him and then offering services for a price. He’s wrong to accept the offer, sure, but under normal circumstances would he actively seek out the services of a prostitute? We can’t say for sure, but he was enticed and he wins the case on the entrapment defense.
On the other hand, if I was just going about my business and some FBI fellow tried to convince me that America was bad and he could help me bring her down…I would hand him over to the authorities as soon as he regained consciousness. Don’t even try to convince me that these six men are just unsuspecting victims of an evil agent of America. You can talk to the hand on that count.
There was also an article in my local newspaper a few days ago that was reminiscent of the reaction to the Sears Tower plot. The main stream media and its minions quickly dismissed the capture of those men by suggesting that they were nothing more than a few hapless wannabes. “Bah”, they said, “they weren’t real terrorists. They were just a bunch of clowns who got caught.”
So it is with the so-called “Fort Dix Six”. But what if they had actually succeeded? Do you think that any of the pooh-poohing pundits would view them in the same manner? No, of course not, they’d blame Bush for not finding them and stopping them before they struck. The premise is that Bush can’t actually stop the real, smart terrorists, only the faux-ones. I must ask, wouldn’t it be more beneficial to us all if we acknowledged and projected the exact opposite message to all terrorists? The very leftist journalists who decried Bush’s “Bring ‘em on” taunt are either inadvertantly or willfully sending the same message.
By blurring the lines of guilt and suggesting that the Fort Dix Six are the parties wronged here the media and whatever cretin vigorously defends them are culpable in at the very least making us less secure.
-Woody
