Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: inhibit the terrorist Message-ID: <904@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 13:36:28 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.904 Posted: Sun Jul 7 13:36:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 00:45:18 EDT References: <2724@harpo.UUCP> Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Co. Lines: 21 ["You're under arrest for resisting arrest!"] First, can we drop the term "terrorist?" As I understand the word, it means somebody who kills or destroys things just to frighten and dishearten people. The Shi'ite hijackers are obviously political extortionists, since they're using threats. Everybody knows that it's hard to hit a moving target. Countries are sitting ducks, because they're _fixed_ political organizations. They're so fixed that in most of the world they even have geographical borderlines. In the computer age, fixity is the ultimate liability, and countries are obsolete. As soon as we develop dynamic political alignments to replace countries, the international extortionists will have nothing to aim at. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva