Originally Posted by Northshore
All this guy did is keep his mouth shut.
On that basis alone, we as a people should be very afraid that he was convicted of anything. So now, where does the offense of keeping quiet end? A government intent on total control ALWAYS starts by criminalizing the activities of the demonized.
Then they work their way down to you.
We wont even get into the fact that this guy probably didn't know crap, or the fact that the way the FBI works if he had told them the entire plot, complete with flight numbers, timetables and twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against him, they probably wouldn't have done a dammed thing about it.