Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!jmt From: jmt@ecsvax.UUCP (Jerry M. Trott) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <1536@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 13:41:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1536 Posted: Thu Jun 27 13:41:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:08:19 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> <518@hou2g.UUCP> <1072@ihuxb.UUCP> <925@houxf.UUCP> Reply-To: jmt@ecsvax.UUCP (Jerry M. Trott) Organization: NC Educational Computing Service Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.followup:5030 net.flame:10845 >-> Actually, the Adolph Hitler principle states that you should kill >->ten of "their" people for each one of "ours". It didn't work for him >->(and believe me he did enough experimentation to find out), but maybe >->we can improve on his mistakes. >-> >->H. Reza Taheri >-> > >Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier >and that's how we got the word "decimate". Actually the word decimate means 'one in ten', not 'ten for one'. If a Roman military unit broke or ran, they would later be lined up and every tenth man killed. While I imagine the Romans had their own unique ways of dealing with problems with the local population, decimation was reserved for the military. Jerry Trott jmt@ecsvax