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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: State Terrorism
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 16:01:41 EDT
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In article <903@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken,
also known as James C. Armstrong, Jr.) writes:
>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.  ...  By the US legal
>system, these people were guilty of NO crimes, yet were adbucted
>without the due process of the law being followed.

The alleged terrorists allegedly committed acts of piracy upon
the high seas.  By a long-established tradition, any
law-enforcement agency which can lay hands upon pirates has
authority to do so.

The four persons who were arrested are being held for trial,
rather than being summarily executed.  They will have a chance
to present their defense.  Let me offer some possible lines of
argument:
1.  They weren't the real terrorists; somebody else did it; this
is all a case of mistaken identity.

2.  The man who was allegedly killed isn't really dead, he's
only pretending.

3.  The man whom they killed was attacking them, and they had
no recourse but to fire on him in self defense.  Oh, I forgot,
he was in a wheel chair.  Well, I said these were possible
lines of defense, I didn't promise that they were likely.

Regards,
Chris

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