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rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) writes:

>In article <lcooper.766162623@kaiwan>, Larry Cooper <lcooper@kaiwan.com> wrote:
>>In <Co4vBv.IEs@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) writes:

>>>What would happen if Canadians, and other non-Americans, started
>>>posting death threats to president@whitehouse.gov?  Clearly this is in
>>>violation of *American* law.. probably an outright death threat is in
>>>violation of Canadian law.. but there's no doubt some middle ground
>>>threat which is fine under Canadian law (what's a president?) but
>>>totally illegal in the U.S.A.?
>>
>>Seems to me that there is a world of difference between making information
>>freely available over the Internet and mailing a death threat to someone no
>>matter how it is sent.

>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 don't agree that there is no difference, just because they are
both breaking foreign laws doesn't make them the same..

	That said, I say wholeheartedly, DO IT!

	I'm all for it..
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