This was sent to the Riverdale press
By Tamara Grapek
To the editor:
As I follow the story of the Newburgh Four(men accused of trying to bomb synagogues in Riverdale), I find many things very disturbing
First,that the four financilly struggling individuals were wooed with money and expensive items in exchange for going along with the undercover agent trying to entrap them.
Second, these four individuals seem lacking in competence and the means to plot and carry out such an atrocious act,
Third, that the arresting officers officers were honored with awards in a media event before a trial to establish guilt or inocence in the alleged commission of these crimes,
Fourth, it quite frankly disturbs me that these four men are all dark skinned. Would white terrorsim suspects recive the same treatment as thes four men have?
I want to see justice as mush as anyone else, but let it be clean justice. afther all, our belief in democratic principles defines us as a society. Entrament is worng so is the assumtion of guilt
without a trail. Let the criminal justice system beware it doesn't commit crimes of it own in its zeal to overcome terrorism.
I like to Thank Tamara Grapek, cause there are some people who see this for what it is
1 comment:
It is quite evident that the federal government does not have anything better to do with tax dollars (or shall I say our money) than to exploit young black men. It's a joke how the gov't is spending tax dollars, instead of trying to build jobs and educating men like David, Onta and the other two men. Ha, and NYS is going broke? I have an idea, why doesn't governor P save some of that money and put it to better use. No, our Fed gov't wants to pay convicted criminals to inform. I guess this was a chance for Hussain to wash his own hands. And what perfect way to it, by luring 4 uneducated, poor black men into this "jihad" tragedy. A year ago these men lived life like a the rest of us, then Hussain (sounds like a Sadaam) comes into the picture and plants this idea into their heads. He offers these poor men money and leads them to destruction. This was a thought out idea NOT from the Newburgh men, but from someone who is an expert in terror. Hussain has a degree in it. People in Newburgh don't think about terror, they think about what they can do to feed their family, what job is going to hire them after being in prison and why is the system so f!@%ed up. That's what Newburgh people think about. $25,000 was the bait and Hussain was the leader. It sounds like he offered them gifts and they were like a kid in a candy store. Cell phones, cameras, video equipment...what a shopping spree.
Here's a question to the idiots who conjured this entrapment idea up, what was the point of luring 'these' men? I guess to see who would take the bait-wrong place wrong time(the way it sounds is as if the FBI could've been testing anyone), only problem is, the leader in this ridiculous escapade was the one who was actually hired by the FBI/Terror Task force. This may have been able to hold up, except for the fact that the informant used his own anger to bully and manipulate four men (1 a bipolar-mentally incapacitated person and another trying to get his sick brother money for liver cancer) into a jihad.
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