Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site frog.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: State Terrorism Message-ID: <268@frog.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 03:09:49 EST Article-I.D.: frog.268 Posted: Tue Oct 29 03:09:49 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 07:59:54 EST References: <903@abnji.UUCP> <1559@hammer.UUCP>, <313@ccivax.UUCP> <1094@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA Lines: 34 Xref: linus net.flame:11644 net.politics:11087 >>> In my opinion, we should have sent forces to Iran and trashed those people >>> that messed with us. We should have gone straight into Berlin and bitten >>> Hitler's face off. Al Capone lived too long. >>> ... etc ... >>> Criminals have got to expect to be treated like the dirt that they are. >>> If I drive too fast, I should get a ticket because there is a law against >>> it. >> >> Suppose you were NOT speeding, but the officer give you a ticket to >> fill a quota, still want to pay? > > This is what courts are for. > What's this bleeding-heart liberal rubbish about _courts_? You're a *criminal*, for goodness sake, it says so right on the ticket; you expect us to waste valuable court time with your whining about whether or not you really were speeding? The capture of the terrorists was, I feel, justified quite properly as apprehending fleeing suspects. The danger is when raving lunatics start asserting that rights are conditional upon some Authority's opinion of you, and appears to feel that police ought to be recruited from the ranks of Mafia hit men, that one has to defend the "wimpy" concept of rights even for "criminals". It is unfortunate that Might doesn't make Right (in the sense of correct, anyway), because Might usually wins. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA Out of my way, I'm a scientist! War of the Worlds