Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!houxf!9234dwz From: 9234dwz@houxf.UUCP (POND SCUM) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: State Terrorism Message-ID: <1022@houxf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 09:11:46 EDT Article-I.D.: houxf.1022 Posted: Tue Oct 15 09:11:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Oct-85 06:10:16 EDT References: <903@abnji.UUCP>, <362@gcc-bill.ARPA> Organization: New Depths of Depravity Lines: 33 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 ->>uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-bill!john ->> Following Johns interpretation to its logical conclusion, think of nuclear missiles as a police nightstick... "Now we are going to come quietly aren't we ?" It looks like gunboat diplomacy is back in vogue. Come back Teddy ! Dave Peak @ ihnp4!hotel!dxp "All the net's a stage and all the men and women merely ham actors !" - Rev Peak (apologies to Bill S.)