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!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!slk 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 References: <2724@harpo.UUCP> Reply-To: slk@mit-vax.UUCP (Siu-Ling Ku) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 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