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From: john@gcc-bill.ARPA (John Allred)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: State Terrorism
Message-ID: <362@gcc-bill.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 18:25:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: gcc-bill.362
Posted: Sun Oct 13 18:25:34 1985
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Keywords: Very unpopular view

In article <903@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes:
>
>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.
>-- 
>James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

Well, a warrant had been issued for their arrest.  And you can think of the
F-14s as police.  In that context, it was a quite legal arrest.  Of course, 
the legality of apprehending these felony suspects gets a bit fuzzy over
international airspace.

-- 
John Allred
General Computer Company 
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