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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: CNN
Keywords: McCarthy, Noriega
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Date: 18 Nov 90 18:51:41 GMT
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In article <459@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
>	I find it hard to beleive that in this group, with it's expressed
>concern for individual rights and privacy, the fact that the government 
>just walked into Panama and snatched a foreign citizen is blithely accepted
>as right.

I think you'll find few here who agree with that statement.  Noriega
was kidnapped before this group was formed, so it's no surprise we
haven't discussed him.   We *have* talked about extradition and crimes
comitted in foriegn countries (and if you never left your country
while doing whatever it was you did).


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