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In reply to the discussion: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Note: Boston Bombing Suspect Allegedly Wrote Confession In Boat, CBS Reports [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)15. Cute white boys can't be terrorists!
There's still a group of teeny-boppers out there that think he was framed. And his mother, of course.
http://politix.topix.com/homepage/5763-petition-claiming-boston-bomb-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-is-innocent-has-12-000-signatures
You can be a terrorist if you are white and older or fat or ugly or have acne. You can be a terrorist if you are black or Arab. But if you are cute and young and white, you can only be framed by a terroristic government.
This has given me a whole new perspective on the DP. Can it really be applied objectively? There seems to be a lot of fundamental profiling going on in the population at large.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Note: Boston Bombing Suspect Allegedly Wrote Confession In Boat, CBS Reports [View all]
Generic Other
May 2013
OP
The person does not have to die, just have thought they were when they said it
treestar
May 2013
#17
Sure, because he just happened to have a notepad & pen on him when he was fleeing for his life ...
Myrina
May 2013
#9
Are you questioning if he was one of the bombers? Who do you think did the bombings and why?
uppityperson
May 2013
#26
"innocent until proven guilty" is only in a court of law. Lots of people are guilty of lots of
uppityperson
May 2013
#30
People have a tendency to confuse presumption of innocence in a court of law with being guilty in
uppityperson
May 2013
#32
So your complaint is that information was not released to the public fast enough? And again
uppityperson
May 2013
#34
Um, no. Neither of your claims about the evidence go to the issue of admissibility in
msanthrope
May 2013
#39
Repeal? What does that even mean? And the prosecutors didn't miss any deadline.....
msanthrope
May 2013
#44
You are using Iranian State TV and a guy with an economics degree? That explains a lot.
msanthrope
May 2013
#46
A press release? By whom? Why not cite the original? You see I doubt the original claims
msanthrope
May 2013
#48
The only story I found was that prosecutors claimed exception to the 30 day rule
msanthrope
May 2013
#50