I don't know Barbara Welch, but I'm pretty sure she had no friends or relatives at/in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, United Flight 93, Pan Am Flight 103, or any of the other terrorist targets of recent years. I say this because she's faulting the FBI for arresting Hosam Smadi, the terrorist who thought he was blowing up Fountain Place in Dallas.
She says they enticed him to blow up that building. Not so, Barbara. Hosam was on the internet looking for someone to provide him the "tools" he needed, and they followed up. This is a kid, she says. Not so, Barbara. He is a 19-year-old terrorist who willingly parked a bomb-laden vehicle in a high traffic area then took the steps to detonate it.
He was highly susceptible to suggestion, she says. Maybe so, but that makes him all the more dangerous. What if it really had been Al-Quaida he was making his plan with? She says she is free to imagine what the FBI did. She can imagine all she wants, but I'm pretty sure the FBI documented their movements, and no imagination will be required in court.
Since he was working alone, she wonders why the FBI even bothered. Well, Barbara, one man detonating a bomb kills as many people as twenty men planning and carrying out the same plan. Didn't they try to help this kid, she asks. Why would we want to help a terrorist?
She thinks the FBI owes him for ruining his life. I think we owe the FBI for the unnumbered lives they saved that day!
"A kid who needed help." The Dallas Morning News; October 2, 2009; p. 20A.
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It "bottles" the mind, doesn't it??! Idiocracy is rampant!!
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