From: utzoo!decvax!cca!DIETZ@USC-ECL@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: Space Law
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2406
Posted: Mon Aug  2 14:52:13 1982
Received: Tue Aug  3 01:31:57 1982

From: Paul Dietz 
There is EVERYTHING wrong with the space treaties.  They are based on the
awful idea that citizens of a country are the property of that country's
government.  Essentially, you are saying that if the US government does
not claim possession of its citizens then the USSR can collect them like
wild animals.

A far better solution would be for US citizens in space to be allowed
to defend themselves against coercion.  It is neither necessary nor desirable
for the US government to fulfill this function.  The government won't
allow this, of course, because the people in space could defend themselves
against US government coercion too.

And why is forming governments in space the ultimate answer?  I thought
governments are the whole problem.
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