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From: slk@mit-vax.UUCP (Ling Ku)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: quest for ways to inhibit the terrorist
Message-ID: <313@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 12:46:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.313
Posted: Thu Jul  4 12:46:31 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 06:25:02 EDT
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Reply-To: slk@mit-vax.UUCP (Siu-Ling Ku)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

One solution is to *execute* all terrorists once captured (make it an 
international capital punishment law) because a lot of times, terrorists
acts (for example hijacking) are used to force some governments to release 
terrorists that were captured.  Therefore, even though the captured 
terrorist may not have been bad enough, their continual existance will
serve as a pretext for further terrorism.  For those "terrorist" (for
example the Shii'tes who were captured by Isreal) who really doesn't
deserve to be killed, then maybe they shouldn't be called terrorist and
hence should be available for negotiation in a subsequent terrorist act.
Or maybe they shouldn't be held prisoners/hostages to start with - any
government that condones holding innocent people hostage to further some
political means deserves to get terrorism thrown back to its face.
(If some terrorist hold up a plane and demand money, do you think people
would really insist in not making deals with them?)  

My personal opinion regarding terrorists is that they should not be allowed 
to live (same as ANY criminal who deliberatly kills innocent people, but
that is another issue).

			Siu-Ling  Ku