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Article #10524Re: Question?
From: Ben Howard
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:47
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:47
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Necro wrote in message <3a3e0d03.227426@news.cix.co.uk>...
>The four capital crimes used to be that, treason, murder, and piracy,
>but i think piracy may've been removed from the statute books a while
>ago as well.
An interesting window on modern civilization's distance from the real
world. Piracy is still a major problem on the high seas even in this day
and age... I guess England just forgot about it because pirates don't
attack English warships anymore.
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