bin Laden Logic 101
Osama bin Laden who should have been captured a long time ago if our government really had any interest in doing it, has created a new video tape. As if we haven’t been bombarded with enough political commercials over the past few months.
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in a videotape broadcast Friday on Al-Jazeera television, claims full responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States and warns Americans that “your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.???
From this report, it appears that bin Laden wants us to believe that we will be safe if we just leave him and his Muslim followers alone.
But how can anybody be safe when neither bin Laden or his follows can see the obvious contradiction in his message?
In the tape, bin Laden — wearing traditional white robes, a turban and a tan cloak — reads from papers at a lectern against a plain brown background. Speaking quietly in an even voice, he tells the American people that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks because “we are a free people??? who wanted to “regain the freedom??? of their nation.
“Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself,??? he says, according to a translation by NBC News.
In case you didn’t catch it, let me run it by you again. He says he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks because “we are a free people.”
People who can be ordered to kill themselves and others are not free people. Free people don’t have to follow orders. Such people are called slaves.