Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!microsoft!fritzs From: fritzs@microsoft.UUCP (Fritz SANDS) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: CNN Message-ID: <59608@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 90 17:32:52 GMT References: <1990Nov16.235831.25433@agate.berkeley.edu> <4948@rsiatl.UUCP> <5378@prussian9.UUCP> <1990Nov20.035510.23148@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov20.075707.41354@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> Reply-To: fritzs@microsoft.UUCP (Fritz SANDS) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 25 In article karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >Remember, Noriega was used as the justification for the United States >launching a military attack upon, and taking control of, a soverign nation. > >If Noriega isn't convicted, it implies that the takeover wasn't justified. Ah, you must get more creative on spin control! If Noriega were to be acquitted by a jury, then that would be the implication. If Noriega is released on a "technicality" (do you notice how it *always* is a technicality) then it is either (1) a demonstration that justice is so para- mount in our land that we even let the most dastardly go free rather than risk (etc etc) or (2) a demonstration that we need more "conservative" judges to stop the gaping loopholes in our criminal system (etc etc). I bet that the prosecution's (awfully convenient) taping of Noriega's priveledged conversations will cause the case to be dropped. I am not normally a conspiracy buff, but this one is too fucking convenient. The youngest jr prosecutor knows that you just don't do that type of thing -- even on the poorest, least-publicised slob that you are going after. It was a setup. The US got what it wanted -- a puppet gov't in Panama. Fritz Sands