Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Message-ID: <187@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 16:52:03 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.187 Posted: Tue Jan 8 16:52:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 05:16:13 EST References: <118@decwrl.UUCP> <210@talcott.UUCP> <1106@teddy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 > >> ********** 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). > >--- > > Greg Kuperberg > > So you think Bernhard Goetz, or any victim of a mugging, should just give the > mugger the money? Give me a break! The guy was defending his life against 4 > muggers! Lets prosecute the criminals not the victims. In this case, the "victim" was assuredly *not* Goetz. Are you not angry at a mugger who shoots someone for 10 bucks? From the facts as they appear in the NY papers (from the Post to the Times) Goetz was not actually mugged, threatened or attacked, only harassed. Granted that New Yorkers in general and subway riders in particular are under stress (:-), but it looks to me that Goetz greatly overreacted. Marcel Simon ..!mhuxr!mfs