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From: marsh@enmasse.UUCP (Marshall Glassner)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: It Cant Happen Here
Message-ID: <328@enmasse.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 17:46:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 31 17:46:13 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1097@houxm.UUCP> gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>From: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto <jcp>)
>
>>In article <643@ccice5.UUCP> rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) writes:
>>>> 	Religions and their believers are not and never have been,
>>>> above the law.
>>>> 
>>>> 	Groups who wish immigration laws changed should write their
>>>> congressmen, not break the law by smuggling in people from Central
>>>> America (or anywhere else).  And besides, what the hell do they
>>>> think they're changing by smuggling in a few hundred people anyway?
>>>> 
>>>> 						-JCP-
>>>In reguards to your above statements:
>>>1.  I would assume it's been a long time since you had a history course.
>>>2.  Maybe a few hundred deaths?
>
>What about the laws of mankind?

>Greg Skinner (gregbo)
>{allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo

There is no law of mankind!  There are scores of countries with
millions of rules, each which defines the rights of citizens.
I would hesitate to assemble even the best (and don't ask me what
that is) of these rules and call them the laws of mankind.

Individuals make choices and, in cases of smuggling illegal 
immigrants, know the risks.  Often these people become heroes;
through their arrests, they publicize their beliefs.  But
the government, on behalf of all those people who do not break
the laws and perhaps suffer for it, sets a dangerous precedent
if it were not to prosecute these people to its fullest extent.