President Kennedy spoke at American University's Spring Commencement on June 10, 1963. In this speech Kennedey called on the Soviet Union to work with the United States to achieve a nuclear test ban treaty and help reduce the considerable international tensions and the specter of nuclear war at that time. (click here)
Put it into context. Don't let the Culture of Fear runaway with emotions. Keep it in check.
What do we know about the nurturing of terrorists? They require impoverishment and anger over it to faciliate this type of plot. Where have we seen impoverishment in this phenomena before?
In Miami...with whom?...four homeless men.
In New Jersey...with whom?...low income men.
and now in New York...with whom?...impoverished angry men and this time one is so angry because he has been displaced from his homeland and status as leader.
Hello?
Let's just say the FBI is doing it's job, but, in all honesty whom do we have here? And what was their capcity to carry out these attacks? Do we see a trend? Yeah. What has to happen now? Seriously? What has to happen here? Besides the FBI doing their job. We have to return to a set of standards that removes (and here is 'that' word again) 'the impetus' from agendas of hate. How do we do that? By engaging in illegal wars and exploitive foreign policy? No. Do we leave Iraq? Yes. Do we do this stupid stuff again? No. What a feather in 'Allah' cap it would be to destroy the devil killing Muslims in Iraq by destroying still another venue of the American Landscape. Were we ever in serious danger from this plot? No. Why? Because the infrastructure is done right. There is always a possiblity that a fuel line can explode with or without the 'impetus' of a terrorist. So there were safeguards all along the way that would have prevented such a plot from manifesting. Have a better day.
...Oil industry experts said safety shut-off valves would almost assuredly have prevented an exploding airport fuel tank from igniting all or even part of the network....
...Four men, including a onetime airport cargo handler and a former member of the Parliament of Guyana, were charged yesterday with plotting to blow up fuel tanks, terminal buildings and the web of fuel lines running beneath Kennedy International Airport....
...They said the men had also traveled repeatedly to Guyana and Trinidad in recent months, seeking the blessing and financial backing of an extremist Muslim group based in Trinidad and Tobago called Jamaat al-Muslimeen, which was behind a bloody coup attempt in Trinidad in 1990....
...One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.” Comparing the case with the plot in which a group of men were arrested last month on charges of planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey, the official said the New Jersey plotters “were a bit further along.”...
Islamic suspects face charges in alleged terror plot in NY (click here)
...The fourth suspect, Abdel Nur, also a Guyanese citizen, is believed to be hiding in Trinidad and Tobago, Paul said, though US officials said they believed he was at large in Guyana.
Defreitas was alleged to have said in a conversation recorded by an US agent who had infiltrated the group that blowing up the airport would have been of great symbolic importance and like killing late US president Kennedy again.
"Any time you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States," he was alleged to have said. "They love John F. Kennedy like he's the man.... If you hit that, this whole country will be in mourning.
"It's like you can kill the man twice."
Sweethearts. These men are real sweethearts. Anything that creates long standing impressions on the USA psychi.
...later...
