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From: tombre@crin.UUCP (Karl Tombre)
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Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism Inc.
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 10:05:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 10:05:13 1985
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>>The sinking of the Greenpeace ship was NOT an act of terrorism.
>>It was an act of sabotage.
>>
>>Definitions:
>>	Sabotage -- Secret attack aimed at destroying of enemy property.
>>		    Unintentional civilian deaths may result as an unavoidable
>>		    (and undesired) side-effect.
>>
>>	Terrorism -- Intentional murder or kidnapping of civilians.
>>
>>	Frank Silbermann
>
>Why would anyone consider an international organization for peace,
>which has never initiated any acts of aggression, to be an "enemy"?
>Likewise, how does an unarmed ship, owned by such an organization,
>constitute "enemy property"?

     Someone can be an  enemy without being armed.  The propaganda war is  a
war  like the others,  especially when  one party  (Greenpeace in this case)
uses wrong facts and induces many people in errors:
     - The  waters around  Mururoa are  *NOT* radioactive, rather less  than
many other places in the world.
     -  The island   soil  itself has   *NOT* been  affected  by the nuclear
explosions. The  seismic activity  of this  region has  remained *VERY*  low
compared to  many  places  where  people   live   without    any perceptible
earthshake.

     I put in doubt Greenpeace being an organization for peace. Why then are
they  going to war  against countries? In my  opinion, you can only bring to
the world the peace you have yourself, in your own life. One can be a man of
peace, in  every  situation of  life, but I  doubt that  this  means to have
attitudes like the Greepeace people, disrupting others...

     This  being  said, it is not at all  my intention to present the French
government or  military as those who  are right. No, France *AND* Greenpeace
are *both* wrong, they  are both warmongers, none of the parties are working
*FOR* peace. They are  in war with each other, and  in war  many things  are
done, not always kind things... In  this way, it is an act  of sabotage  and
not  of terrorism, as terrorism is  the intentional  murder or kidnapping of
*innocent* civilians, to be more precise  than Frank  Silbermann. And  in my
opinion the Greepeace people are not *innocent*.

     Well,   I  already  see the  inhabitants   of Netland preparing   their
flamethrowers, so I'd better  go and hide. No no, I am not going to give you
my private address (-:

-- 
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