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Look at the idealist try to reconcile its morality.....

In article <66ju70hbjtdcph493smp2cn133a4bmee1i@4ax.com>, misnomer@shaw.ca 
says...
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>Thanks for the story, had to do some googling to find out more... she has some
>people who are sympathetic to her - as a person, 
>
>http://communications.uvic.ca/tips/tip011022.html (there are others)
>http://www.stthomasu.ca/~parkhill/nrm01/pmt01.htm 
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>and also a few who equate her "terrorism" to the attacks on the WTC... 
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>http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20011030/COEL
MASRY
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>
>Its also interesting:
>1) That the building was a satelite of the college, built on previous
>"internment camps" for doukabor children. 
>2) That her name is Braun - (not a doukabour name)
>3) Look at the date she was in court, shortly after the attacks on the WTC
>4) Worried about world peace...  perhaps she was right.
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>
>take care
>Liz
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>
>Hey! Look what jones@owendell.com (Oliver Wendell Jones) wrote : 
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>>Godiva doesn't count?
>>
>>this old biddy was no Godiva:
>>
>>
>>Oct, 2001 Nelson, B.C. � An 81-year-old Doukhobor woman who set fire to a 
>>college building was sentenced to six years in prison Friday and told court 
she 
>>was worried about world peace.
>>
>>Mary Braun was also fined $200,000 to compensate the college.
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>>She has been fasting for a week, and her lawyer told B.C. Supreme Court that 
>>any kind of prison sentence could be a life sentence.
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>>But Justice Mark McEwan said he could not ignore Ms. Braun's past record, 
which 
>>includes a total of 23 years in prison and and 10 convictions, 12 for arson 
>>since 1971.
>>[...] 
>>
>>Ms. Braun is a member of the radical Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect, whose 
>>members are also known as Freedomites. They have traditionally disrobed and 
>>burned possessions as a symbol of renouncing material possessions. They also 
>>conduct hunger strikes as a form of protest.
>>
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