NYT pings actively defending terror suspects

We all knew it was coming. The day the NYT would actively come out in support of terrorists and those planning terror attacks. Well, that day has arrived. Remember people, terrorism is just an Orwellian "thought crime" until you actually kill someone according to the esteemed Eric Lipton: New York Times

Recent Arrests in Terror Plots Yield Debate on Pre-emptive Action by Government
In Miami last month and now in New York, terror cases have unfolded in which suspects have been apprehended before they lined up the intended weapons and the necessary financing or figured out other central details necessary to carry out their plots...

But the Miami and New York cases are inspiring a new round of skepticism from some lawyers who are openly questioning whether the government, in its zeal to stop terrorism, is forgetting an element central to any case: the actual intent to commit a crime...

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a Justice Department tally, 261 defendants have been convicted or have pleaded guilty in terrorism or terrorism-related cases. But many of those cases have only remote connections to actual terrorism plots, like the case involving six men from Lackawanna, N.Y., who pleaded guilty to attending a terrorist training camp, but never actually took part in a terror plot...

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