Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Discussion vs Convincing (umina comes out in support of terrorism) Message-ID: <523@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 15:48:54 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.523 Posted: Tue Jan 15 15:48:54 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:13:45 EST References: <217@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 24 Len ( ..!unima) writes: > 2. Bombing abortion clinics (provided no one get hurt) is merely property > destruction. [ ] If on > a jury, I would never convict an abortion clinic bomber as I feel he > is going to the aid of the defensless. Well first of all, Lenny, you couldn't be on a jury in a case like that, thank Ubizmo, cause they don't let people who say "I would never convict him" before the trial on juries. (Unless you're planning on lying under oath during the selection. After all, it's for a good cause.) Secondly, the "(provided no one get hurt)" is a nice, ungrammatical dis- claimer, but it seems that whether or not someone gets hurt when you bomb a building is entirely a matter of luck. But if they take the chance and get lucky and don't kill anyone, you think we should let these bomb-throwing champions of the right to life back on the street. Personally, I find such an attitude disgusting in the extreme. "Terrorism" is a word about methods, not motives. A terrorist uses violent methods to attempt to change a society. Civilized people abhor the initiation of violence, even if the they share the goals of the terrorists. Listen, Lenny: it's not too late; psychological counseling CAN help. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "Aye, Captain, and at warp 11 we're going nowhere mighty fast!"