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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Bernhard Goetz Update
Message-ID: <607@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 20:22:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.607
Posted: Tue Jul  9 20:22:33 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:26:47 EDT
References: <172@pyuxh.UUCP> <29200235@uiucdcs> <599@cybvax0.UUCP> <334@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

In article <334@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
> >> Scott Renner:
> >> 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.
> 
> 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).

No.  None of the 4 youths Goetz shot have been convicted of anything
concerning Goetz.  To wish that Goetz had killed him is to wish for summary
justice for crimes not yet proven, rather than justice for crimes in
commission.  Whether the crime in commission is rape or jaywalking,
wishing Goetz had killed him is to wish for no due process.

But it is quite a normal human wish.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh