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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: State Terrorism
Message-ID: <387@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 10:23:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 10:23:10 1985
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Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
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>The question is, have world affairs reached such a state of 
>emergency that such wide-sweeping police powers are necessary
>and desirable?  Not clear to me.  

Maybe it would be clear to you if you were Mr. Klinghoffer, the man
who was murdered and throw overboard by the terrorists. Or maybe if
you were one of the hostages held in Iran in 1979 or cooped up in the
airplane in Lebanon a year or so ago. Or maybe if you were a victim of
one of the various random bombings that have taken place recently in
cities all over the world from Salt Lake City to Beirut to London.

If you would walk in these victims' shoes for one day, I'm sure it would
be clear to you then that we are indeed in a state of emergency.

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Disclaimer: The above argument of mine uses a famous informal fallacy.
Can anyone name it?

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