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Old 03-25-2004, 10:23 AM   #9
Clodfobble
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I really wish people would stop calling that kid a "child." Yes, he looked like a child, which is what made him so appealing for the job, but he was 16. You know, the same age as the kids in Columbine, and plenty of skinheads in this country, and lots of other really fucked up kids.

They did not trick him into carrying the bomb, he chose to do it. Yes, someone took advantage of the fact that teenagers are very easily manipulated, especially with anger, but are you seriously suggesting that there aren't people like that in this, or any, country? You don't think the leaders of the Neo-nazi movement across the US and Europe are taking advantage of the anger of the young men they recruit to get them to commit murder while they keep their hands clean? How is that any different?

Every country has evil. I agree that it's all evil in the end, but you can't ignore the teenagers' choices in the matter.
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