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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: American Hostages
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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> In article <726@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> omo@mcnc.UUCP (Julie Omohundro) writes:
> 
> >On Americans in war zones deserving what they get:
> >
> >I can sort of see your point, but I find this attitude bothersome,
> >because it seems to echo statments I heard in the 50s and 60s
> >about how blacks who got beaten up for trying to enter all-white
> >establishments or segregated schools were getting their just deserts.
> >Also statements then and now about women wearing provocative clothing
> >or walking alone at night deserving to get raped.
> 
Under the laws governing the rights of freedom of speech, expression, religion,
etc, a person in America has the right to expect to be protected, regardless
of where that person travels IN the U.S.  The violence encountered in the 50's
and 60's was not instigated by the federal government rather by local gover-
ments and individuals.
We don't have the right to expect to be protected in a foriegn country where
that guarantee of freedom of expression does not exist.  And in some countries
where the violence and terrorism is instigated at the highest levels of that
countries federal government, we can expect to be treated no better then that
countries citizens.  If a citizen of that country lives in fear, why would a
foreigner in that country expect to live in less fear.  Our rights guaranteed
us by our constitution are stripped from us as we leave our boarders.  We then
must live under the laws governing the country we travel to.  In a war zone
such as exists in the jungles of Nicaraqua, the laws must be primitive at
best, i.e. kill or be killed.
Although no one deserves injury or death through foolish acts, they may get
what they ask for, and that is to be subjected to the harsh realities of
the laws governing the situation they find themselves in and they can expect
no help from the soft cushion of the Bill of Rights.
> 
>