🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jul18.224816.6454@csn.org>, ltepper@csn (Larry Tepper) writes:
>You gotta be kidding.  Treasonous?  That's a capital offense!  Are you
>actually accusing this person of committing a crime for which the
>punishment is DEATH?

Yeah, well, two persons were recently in court accused of treason in
Finland.  The supposed treason they did was that they sold some old
VAXes (11/750 I think, or was it 11/730) and some other computer stuff
to the Soviet Union, breaking the COCOM export rules.  The reasoning
was I think that as endangering Finland's relations to other countries
is treason, breaking the COCOM rules is treason since it could perhaps
lead to high-tech export ban on Finland.

Well anyway, there seems to be at least some sense left in the Finnish
courts so these persons were not convicted.

I hear it could also be treason to just be 'too friendly' with foreign
diplomats and such - like getting them newspaper clippings, helping
them in other perfectly normal ways etc.

[ this is not relevant to the GNU project, so I directed followups to
misc.legal ]

//Jyrki