Re: In-flight confrontations can lead to charges defined as terrorism

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: January 24, 2009 7:45:42 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    In-flight confrontations can lead to charges  
defined as terrorism

I guess we should conclude that it's best to treat people that a  
majority want to treat badly with "the laws you have, not the laws you  
wish you had." (thanks, Donnie)

If a woman was thought repugnant (or "an animal"), it is a fine  
American legal tradition to throw her in jail under any statute that  
works.  For example, the US invented "vagrancy" laws in the post- 
reconstruction south to imprison and put blacks to work in labor-crews  
that amounted to peonage (near slavery) back in the late 19th and  
early 20th century.  We Americans are very creative at using the law  
to screw over any class of people we want to.

But that's not why we were supposed to pass the Patriot Act, nor why  
we should have it.

As for the "bleeding heart left wing liberal opposed to the police" -  
I guess the implication is that we should classify people by their  
declared beliefs as good people or bad people?  Self-labeling oneself  
as a "good Christian" or a "good liberal" doesn't amount to much.   
People who call themselves "good X" have murdered others, and people  
who have thought themselves "sinners" have done much for the world.






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