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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Il accuse...
Message-ID: <48@midas.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 03:03:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 16 03:03:43 1985
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Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <108@ogesml0.UUCP> ciaran@ogesml0.UUCP (ciaran) writes:
>
>      As far as entering prohibited areas is concerned, is an act like
>flying over the sakhalin island (Korean airliner incident), on
>which it just so happens that important military installations
>are installed, or over US air bases (the Cubans had the nasty
>habit of doing this on a Havana -> Montreal flight really a "non-violent"
>act.
>	Who was it that said that "one spy is worth ten infantry
>divisions."
>	This is however what Greenpeace is doing; entering prohibited
>areas (i.e. the 12 mile limit) is prohibited under all international law,
>and the US , Sweden (mining soviet spy submarines), &c
>and other countries have a tendency to take potshots at people when
>they do so.

I take it from the tone of your article that you think these actions
are appropriate. Congratulations - you may be the only person on the
net who approves of the shooting down of KAL 007. If not, why bring it
up? Custom does not make correctness.

You also have a problem with relevance, or at least applicability. Since
Greenpeace is hardly in the business of espionage, either for themselves
or any national power, your "justification" is too flimsy to stand.

But suppose, just for the sake of argument, they were. What far-fetched
analogy would you use to justify the mining of the ship *in the harbor
of a neutral country* as opposed to firing on it inside the prohibited
area?

						Jeff Winslow