From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: Re: Special Bulletin - (nf)
Article-I.D.: inmet.55
Posted: Sat Apr  2 03:27:51 1983
Received: Sun Apr  3 00:52:41 1983

#R:utzoo:-289100:inmet:6500004:000:1252
inmet!porges    Mar 31 13:29:00 1983

	Not only would the government not be willing to give in to blackmail
for abstract reasons if terrorists demanded nuclear detonators,  but suppose
the "anti-nuke terrorists" turned out to be, literally, Soviet agents?  
Remember that we had only their word that the detonators would be taken out to
sea and destroyed.  (For that matter, it was never made clear in "Special 
Bulletin" if the boat was supposed to go out some distance and blow up its
muclear device, as was implied but not stated, or if they were to be sunk
and the bomb defused.)  On the other hand, it's true that the whole thing
would have been pointless since the detonators could indeed by easily replaced.
In real life, the reult would have been to discredit the anti-nuke movement!
	FLAME:  and this is what's *pragmatically* wrong with terrorism.  
Terrorists seem to assume that if they can show us all HOW MUCH THEY CARE about
their issue, that will convince the rest of us that they must be right.  In
fact this goes beyind terrorism and into wars....anybody here convinced Nazism
is good because the Nazis cared so very stringly about their cause?
					-- Don Porges
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