Reply #14: Why only Muslims?

[Catrina]

Why not white supremicists, or Christian Fundies (who already did use bombs to kill Americans? What about the Texan (definitely not a Muslim) who was found to have enough bombs in his home, he could have blown up NYC? And he might have done so had there not been a mistake in mailing some parts for his WMDs which went to a neighbor who reported it. He might have gotten away with it had it not been for that mistake, because who would EVER think a white, Christian guy would ever bomb anyone? And Timothy McVeigh and his friends weren't Muslims, were they? So how is targeting only Muslims going to keep us safe?

One tragic event involving Muslims (or so we're told) and countless tragic events involving white Americans. Yet only Muslims are targeted with absolutely no probably cause other than their ethnicity. How many Americans are murdered every year by other Americans, mostly NOT Muslims? 30,000 maybe, more? What is our government doing about that? Since 9/11 approximately 120,000 Americans have been murdered. No one even talks about it, but this president has used the deaths of under 2000 to go kill 100,000 and to torture, to thrash the Constitution, to throw away billions of dollars, yet he apparently thinks it has all been for nothing but in his opinion, or so he says to excuse his criminal violation of the law, he needs to take away the rights of all Americans, (and even more from Muslim Americans) to stop terrorism.

How does this make sense? Do we target all white people because of Tim McVeigh?

Muslims are Americans also. Do they not have rights as American citizens? Did you agree with the targeting of German Jews in Germany? There was no outrage then ~ maybe we are outraged now because we remember what happened then!!

That's a few of the reasons why I am outraged with each new revelation of how this administration is quickly turning this country into a totalitarian state doing what all totalitarian governments do, using 'national security' as their excuse. As soon as the population is suitably cowed, they won't even bother with the excuses. They count on our fear. But I am now more afraid of them than I am of terrorists.