Don't Shoot the Driver

A man, possibly guilty of nothing more than getting a legal job to support his family, including two little girls, is being painted as a leader of terrorism.
Salim Hamdan, bin Laden's driver, has been found guilty on charges of supporting terrorism because of his job. He may be guilty of supporting terrorism, but if he is, it's certainly not for trying to earn an honest living. If you want to condemn a man, get proof that what he has done is actually wrong and don't just blame by assosciation. Could it be that his own opinion on Osama bin Laden's methods and ideals made no difference when it came to feeding his family? You want to catch terrorists, great. But I'm sure a simple driver is much less of a threat than, I don't know, the leaders he was chauffeuring? Don't spend all the country's money and time on this! If he decided to blow up a building, that would be different. He didn't. If he was privy to some scheme to destroy half of the world, that would be different. He wasn't. This is ridiculous. Spend this effort instead on finding the people causing the trouble, and on checking Bush's policies that keep extending this long succession of failures.

-Modern Diogenes-