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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: State Terrorism
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 12:36:34 EDT
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Well, I'll bet that many of you are happy that the US Government has
hijacked a plane on which the alleged terrorists were leaving
Egypt.  I ask you, however, to think for a moment on the implications
of these actions.

Does not the act of forcing the aircraft to fly to Sicily qualify as
an act of "state terrorism" by teh US Government?  By the US legal
system, these people were guilty of NO crimes, yet were adbucted
without the due process of the law being followed.  US legal officers
are required to follow the laws of the land when apprehending a 
subject; I realise that the people on the plane were not in the US,
and not subject by law to US constitutional protections, however
I must urge people to extend our protections when dealing with
others (The Golden rule, eh?), otherwise we end up with a regional
chauvanism in our dealings with others.

I do not approve of terrorism, but I do not have an answer.  I do know
that the use of terrorism in reprisal is not a cure.  How can we expect
people to believe us in the future when we say as a nation that we
do not condone terrorism when we are one of the practitoners?
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

I'll keep an eye on the old man, he seems to have a knack for getting
himself into trouble!

-who said it, what story?