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Originally posted by yankeewitch:
SLEEPER CELL-a small cell that isn't involved in any active terrorist activities UNTIL it is alerted, then begins it's predetermined preparation for an attack. I'm glad some of you are so sure you can tell these sleeper cells from innocent hard working people, because I can't and until I feel that I can identify a sleeper cell, I will err on the side of the U.S.A. They will not get any of my money to send back to use against us.I am not a radical christian, but I am a radical AMERICAN!
How did this forum go from
"Why I don't support our troops." to "How we should support our local "oops"arabic people."
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good definition of sleeper cell, and a reasonable excuse for being su****ious of strangers. BUT. A sleeper cell does not have to be made of immigrants, Muslims, or for that matter any age demographic.
The definition fits the US Armed Forces. They start out as civilians, join up, and go about their peacful daily existance until ordered to go do what they have been trained for. Reservists and National guardsmen pass through our lives without our knowing they are in the military. Then, some day after work they get a notice in the mail, or a telegram, or a phone call, and go off to do their patriotic duty.
That's why I support our troops. I rather like the ideal of a prepared ARMY. I like the fact that a few hundred million men and women have taken that responsibility over the history of our country.
I like it so much that I did it myself.
What I don't like is the objective of THIS PARTICULAR call up.
For one thing, it has weakened us at home. Our best are in Iraq.
Another problem, how do we know that the Muslim Americans in our Armed Forces will do as they have been told?
Are you aware that street gangs are urging their members to enlist? Do you know that they are reasoning that Military training will make them more effective?
Don't ever loose sight of the fact that Timothy McVeigh was a sleeper cell member, unwittingly trained by the United States to make bombs, and touched off by a federal action against a Religious Group. Do you think the people who sold him fertilized and deisel fuel expected him to make a bomb?
The problem is su****ion based on a generalization.