Bishop the wannabe Arab terrorist

[Jon Ford]

The causes for the youngfella's crashing of his plane could be similar to 
those of other American youths who have attacked their classmates. They are 
all "terrorists without a cause," violent youths in a violent country. What 
difference does it make what the weapon is -- a car (a drunk kid at UC Santa 
Barbara deliberately ran down a bunch of other drunk kids out on a spree 
last spring), an airplane, a machine gun? Thiese kids are bored adolescents 
with fire power, vague anger,  a chip on their shoulders-- Osama could be 
just a rationalisation for mayhem, in this case. Of course, there could be 
some deeper reason, like Mike says-- after all, if the kid has Arab blood-- 
but I'd prefer a less racially biased interpretation.


Jon


>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Bishop the wannabe Arab terrorist
>Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:58:39 -0600
>
>Roger Baker wrote:
> >
> > So this 15 year old kid crashes his plane into the side of a bank.
> >
> > Why?
>
>when I first saw a photo of Bishop, his features seemed to me to
>be Arabic. subsequently I read that Bishop used to tell his
>fellow students that his father was an Arab. this might be
>true or he might have fabulized about this because of his
>appearance. we may or we may not ever get to the bottom of this.
>




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