[lbo-talk] No rights for Tsarnaev?

[Gary Mongiovi]

The Zeitgeist seems to be having some difficulty accommodating the possibility that the bombers might not have been Islamic extremists. This morning's FT had a piece which refers to "the brothers' APPARENT Islamic extremism" in a story that in fact finds no evidence at all that they were jidadis.  Another FT story on the same page is headlined "US 'Slow' to Tackle Threat of Homegrown Jihadism", even though, once again, there is as yet no indication that these maniacs were Jihadis.

In the NY Times, we find a story that indicates the older brother was a sad, lonely, disaffected person who never really found a way to fit in. But the headline suggests that his religious beliefs were a causal factor: "A Pilgrim in a Violent Land: 'Listen to the Call of Prayer."

It may turn out that the were religious radicals But, man, it is astonishing how the story is being subtly spun that way before anyone has had a chance even to talk to the surviving suspect. 

This on a day when the Business section of the NY Times ran a story about how CNN, in its haste to scoop its competitors, misreported that a suspect had been apprehended before that was the case. 

The despicable call to try them as enemy combatants is of a piece with this almost blanket disregard for getting the facts before spouting off .

Gary 

Gary Mongiovi
Economics & Finance Department
St John's University
Jamaica, NEW YORK 11439 (USA)

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Email: mongiovg at stjohns.edu
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I don't get it. Why no rights? I mean why not use due process to convict him if he's guilty?

Joanna