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Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 06:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 06:34:00 1986
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In article <126@comp.lancs.ac.uk> gareth@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gareth Husk) writes:
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| I was going to stay out of this, all I was going to do was register my
| displeasure with our present government, however I finally have had 
| enough of the hypocrisy.
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| In article <3265@ut-ngp.UUCP> osmigo1@ngp.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
| >.... Khadafy has been murdering people
| >for 15 years now, at an escalating rate. He furnishes arms to the Sandanistas.
| >He backs the IRA. Abu Nidal is on his payroll... and so on...
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| Khadafy is not the only one who supports the IRA.
| A true-blue American organisation provides the IRA with funding to carry
| on with indisciminate attacks of the civilians and armed forces of
| the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yes I'm talking about that peace-loving
| organisation NORAID. 
|
|     They are funding *MURDER* there is no other way to descibe it, and we
|see no action by the American administration to hold NORAID responsible
|for the actions of their funding in the same way that Libya is being
|held responsible for the actions of Abu Nidal ( whose biggest sponsor
|is Libya, followed by Iran but they are a little big to make examples of ).
|
|The citizens of the USA are funding terrorism within the borders of one 
|of its "closest allies". I think that the USA ought to clean up its act,
|outlaw NORAID, and start applying the same standards to all acts of
|terrorism that it claims to be working to in the bombing of Libya.


It is already illegal to ship weapons to the IRA.  The US government
also does not support the transfer of funds to the IRA.  NORAID's
publicly stated purpose is quite legal.  All that is needed to stop
NORAID is to prove in a court of law, that they have indeed violated
the law.  I'm quite sure that any federal judge would be more than
willing to shut them down, given necessary proof.  It is one of the
side effect of the large personal freedoms guaranteed in the US, that
proof must be provided to hold an organization (or person) responsible.

If you have the proof to convince a judge a jury.....

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