GOVERNMENT OVERPLAYS ITS HAND ON THE WAR AGAINST TERROR

Not surprising, that the government would say that it stopped a major terror attack on US soil recently--in regards to an alleged plot against a military base in New Jersey.

But the simple fact of the matter, is that in incidents like these, only a third of such prosecuted cases in this country--since 9-11--are actually charged with terrorism, and the rest are simply given lesser charges like illegal immigration.

However, don't let this drive a wedge into the government's fantasies that these 6 suspects (three illegal immigrants, and two converted Muslims formally from Yugoslavia--one of them a pizza-delivery guy) are truly capable of mass-murdering hundreds of US soldiers--based on the far-fetched idea that they could actually penetrate a high-security military base using only automatic weapons and a crudely drawn map.

The government likes to hype up things up to make it look like these incidents are truly the work of Islamic radical fundamentalists abroad. But once the smoke clears and people start thinking with a clear head, we all see that these people are nothing more than victims of government fear-mongering and a bloated ego to match.

If these people were truly a threat to national security, and they were really terrorists, they wouldn't be needing to go to your local Supermart technology store to burn a copy of their so-called paintball "training video", now would they?

I'm not saying we shouldn't be vigilant against terrorism here at home, but having the government overplay its hand by making a mountain of a molehill in cases like this one, does more harm to us as a nation than it actually helps.

Schuyler Thorpe

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