Polish authorities arrest a terror suspect

[Ed Anger]

[Iormlund]

[Martinus]

Facing up to FIVE years in prison?

Well, he didn't do anything beyond preparation.

[Martinus]

The five years is five years locked in Mart's tiny flat.

The only prison where nobody does anal.

[Razgovory]

Apparently, the guy was a supporter of the political party/leader supported also by szmik. 

Szmik didn't strike me as that bright.

How does that necessarily impugn szmik's political views?  By the same token I could discredit yours by finding some nutjob who happens to be a Democrat who voted for Obama.

Yeah, and Hamas is okay if you forget about the whole terrorism thing. 

[garbon]

Facing up to FIVE years in prison?

Well, he didn't do anything beyond preparation.

And gathered the materials. Meanwhile we have those men in California facing up to 15 and it sounds like they'd got as far as planning to go to a terrorist training camp.

[garbon]

Apparently, the guy was a supporter of the political party/leader supported also by szmik. 

Szmik didn't strike me as that bright.

How does that necessarily impugn szmik's political views?  By the same token I could discredit yours by finding some nutjob who happens to be a Democrat who voted for Obama.

Yeah, and Hamas is okay if you forget about the whole terrorism thing. 

Even you have to recognize you just made a Marti like analogy.

[Razgovory]

Apparently, the guy was a supporter of the political party/leader supported also by szmik. 

Szmik didn't strike me as that bright.

How does that necessarily impugn szmik's political views?  By the same token I could discredit yours by finding some nutjob who happens to be a Democrat who voted for Obama.

Yeah, and Hamas is okay if you forget about the whole terrorism thing. 

Even you have to recognize you just made a Marti like analogy.

Did I?  It's been common currency in the US that the acts of terrorism legitimatize your positions.

[garbon]

Did I?  It's been common currency in the US that the acts of terrorism legitimatize your positions.

Yes, you did. To be comparable to Hamas, you'd need to show some sort of collusion of the party that szmik reportedly supports and various terrorist actors. Otherwise, you're saying that any political party can be compared to Hamas as long as there is one individual who claims membership to the party and plots a terrorist act.

[Razgovory]

You know, you are becoming very tiresome.  I don't know even know what party Szimik is part of.  Could be the Nazi party for all I know.

[garbon]

Sure, I'll try and stay away from commenting on posts where you make ridiculous statements if you try cutting down the volume of them.

[dps]

Did I?  It's been common currency in the US that the acts of terrorism legitimatize your positions.

Yes, you did. To be comparable to Hamas, you'd need to show some sort of collusion of the party that szmik reportedly supports and various terrorist actors. Otherwise, you're saying that any political party can be compared to Hamas as long as there is one individual who claims membership to the party and plots a terrorist act.

Yeah, but it's pretty common to do what Raz is doing, and equate anyone who supports a particular party, ideology, belief, etc., with the acts of the most extreme.  Not saying that it's right, but it's certainly not unusual.

[garbon]

It is rather odd to continue to do so, once derspeiss had called him out for that mistake.

[Martinus]

Still, in a situation in which person A supports an organization which engages in terrorist acts, while person B and person C both support an organization, and person C engages in terrorist acts, saying that person A is just like person B is pretty retarded.

It's like saying that criminal actions of anyone who ever voted for a specific party taint every single person who ever voted for the same party.

[Martinus]

It is rather odd to continue to do so, once derspeiss had called him out for that mistake.

It's even worse when you consider that the arrested guy here wasn't even a member of the party szmik supports, but just supported it.