Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-opus.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!gcc-opus!alien From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: British Weapons Enforce Apartheit in South Africa Message-ID: <189@gcc-opus.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 11:26:27 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.189 Posted: Fri Jan 11 11:26:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:35:51 EST References: <353@bonnie.UUCP> <159@abnji.UUCP> <2121@uw-june> Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman) Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.flame:7713 net.politics:6858 Summary: >>As well as manufacturing rubber/plastic bullets, Britain has a thriving >>business in the manufacturing and export of implements of torture. >>This is what Margaret Thatcher calls free enterprise. >>JCA I just heard on the radio last night that the first case of an *unnatural* birth has occurred in England. It seems that a wife was infertile, so the sperm of her husband was used to fertilize the egg of a third party, with the baby slated for the couple. The fee was about $8K. It seems that British courts have taken a dim view of this. The baby has been impounded so the courts can decide who the baby will live with (there was no mention of any disagreement between the parties involved). I heard a quote from a British magistrate where he didn't complain about the process being done, but rather complained about it being done 'for profit'! It would seem that in England, morally questionable things should only be done by the government, not free enterprise ... Alien