Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Bernhard Goetz Update Message-ID: <334@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 19:41:10 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.334 Posted: Mon Jul 8 19:41:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:38:48 EDT References: <172@pyuxh.UUCP> <29200235@uiucdcs> <599@cybvax0.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 Summary: In article <599@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: >> This probably won't change Goetz's legal problems. It may not change your >> opinion of what Goetz did. But I'll bet that somewhere in New York there's >> a woman who wishes that Bernard Goetz was a better shot. >> >> Scott Renner > >I suppose that by that standard, we should all hope you are shot dead before >you might commit a crime in the future. > >It's easy to wish away due process of law for people you dislike or fear. >But the cost is too high, as numberless tyrants and revolutions have >shown. >Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh Actually, he was suggesting that the youth (should/could?) have been shot during a crime, not before it. It's absurd to think that you would shoot a potential criminal, but shooting a current criminal is a different story. (I'm not saying I support that, just getting stories straight). -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack. No one knows about it." -Rev. Wang Zeep