Freedom Fighter Or Terrorist?

If a Palestinian can blow up Israeli children on school buses and be labeled a freedom fighter or an insurgent, not a terrorist, does anyone qualify as a terrorist?

Of course! All you have to do is put a bomb in a building owned by a murderous communist dictatorship and raise money for the GOP! Then the LATimes will boldly call you a terrorist!

Yasith Chhun often boasted to newspapers and magazines about masterminding an attack on government buildings in Cambodia and his plans to overthrow the Southeast Asian country's communist regime.

The U.S. State Department declared the group he headed, the Cambodian Freedom Fighters, a terrorist organization in 2001.

But that label didn't stop Chhun, 48, from gaining friends among GOP stalwarts, such as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach and the National Republican Congressional Committee, which raises funds for electing Republicans to Congress.

Before his federal indictment this week on charges of plotting to overthrow the Cambodian government, the Long Beach accountant had raised $6,550 for the National Republican Congressional Committee and was invited to sit on the group's Business Advisory Council, which has tens of thousands of members nationwide. LATimes

OC conservative congressman Dana Rohrbacher would have none of the LAT's shenanigans:

"The State Department quite often will worship at the altar of stability and not consider liberty and justice as part of the equation," the congressman said in a phone interview. When "you talk about a dictator like Hun Sen, you don't want stability, you want change. Let's hope our State Department is not condemning anybody who would act to eliminate Hun Sen."

But Rohrbacher said he would not support Chhun's activities if they cost civilian lives.