Re: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!

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From: Justin Wells
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 01:10

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Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>	rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) says:

>>What's the difference?  By publishing details of the trial you're breaking
>>Canadian law, by threatening the president I would be breaking American
>>law.  Do you see a difference?  I don't see a difference.

>I think that most people would see a significant difference between
>publishing banned information and threatening the life of a human
>being.

By publishing that banned information you threaten the rights of one
human being, and perhaps the lives of others.  The American constitution
gives Bill Clinton a right to his life; the Canadian constitution gives
Paul Teale a right to a fair trial.

In terms of rights, human lives, and law there isn't a whole lot of
difference between ending someones life, and forcing them to spend
the rest of it behind bars.

Justin
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<rjwells@uwaterloo.ca, stem@io.org, stem@sizone.pci.on.ca> (Justin Wells)

"Knowledge for its own sake" -- that is the last snare of morality: with
that one becomes completely entangled in it once more.    - F. Nietzsche

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From: rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells)
Subject: Re: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!
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