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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: State Terrorism
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 07:30:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 07:30:32 1985
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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.

Could not the same be said about innocent people killed by handguns?
Other crimes?  Increasing police power seems like such an easy idea,
until you are an innocent victim of that police power; I prefer to
risk an large unorganised threat than an organised and state approved
threat to my liberties.
-- 
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?