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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Bernhard Goetz Update
Message-ID: <334@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 19:41:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.334
Posted: Mon Jul  8 19:41:10 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:38:48 EDT
References: <172@pyuxh.UUCP> <29200235@uiucdcs> <599@cybvax0.UUCP>
Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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In article <599@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:

>> 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.
>> 
>> Scott Renner
>
>I suppose that by that standard, we should all hope you are shot dead before
>you might commit a crime in the future.
>
>It's easy to wish away due process of law for people you dislike or fear.
>But the cost is too high, as numberless tyrants and revolutions have
>shown.
>Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh

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).

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack.
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