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From: jmd@aluxe.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, Pa.)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 09:16:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 09:16:17 1985
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> **********  FREE BERNHARD GOETZ ! ! ! ! ******************************
> ********** (and give him more bullets)  ******************************
>
>No, let him have a long conversation with the guy he paralyzed (a pretty
>severe punishment for an attempted mugging).

Let's see. There you (or you and your wife, girlfriend, etc.) are sitting on
a NYC subway minding your own business when four teenagers (not your average
goodhearted, what are you doing after school today teenagers) approach you
and demand money.  The fact that they have weapons exposed or not does not
matter here because four unarmed guys could inflict bodily harm as easy as
any weapon could.  You find yourself in this situation.  What would you do?
Give them your money?  What if what you gave them wasn't enough?  Then what
would you do?  Sit back, relax, take your time and think about it for awhile.
Unfortunately, Mr. Goetz didn't have that convenience.  He had to act quickly
almost on instinct and in his opinion his life was endangered.  Unless you
have ever been in such a situation you will never know what you would have
done.  So don't knock Mr. Goetz for what he did, whether right or wrong, he
survived the ordeal and at that moment when he had to make a decision that's
probably all he had on his mind - surviving!
							Joseph M. Dakes
							AT&T Bell Laboratories
							Reading, PA
							aluxe!jmd