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[quote=jsteele]Of course, saying that you didn't have problems with McVeigh or Rudolph is a great way of answering my question without answering it. You guys should be in politics. The question was not how you responded in the past -- a time when the Tea Party didn't even exist -- but how you would react now if a tea party type had been accused of the bombings. You would not immediately agree that the Tea Party's ideology had inspired the bombing. I'm quite sure that you would look for motivations beyond his Tea Party association. Most likely, there would be a major effort to simply declare the guy crazy.

If you readily accept what your preconceived biases suggest, then it leads to exactly the situation we are now facing: Declare him an enemy combatant, deprive him of his rights, don't allow him to have a lawyer, maybe don't even charge him. Why even bother to give the guy a trial?  Why go to that effort if we've already decided he is just another Muslim terrorist?

Maybe the conventional wisdom is right. Maybe the older brother suddenly became fantasized and brainwashed his brother and in an Islamic fervor they decided to bomb the marathon. Maybe that's true. But, I think there are other, equally possible, explanations. I think it is worth considering those.
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