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Re: Keep Elian from the brainwashing in Havana Re: Elian: Send The Boy Home!

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From: James Doemer
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 00:00
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"Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3920acb1_1@news.provide.net>,
> James Doemer <bigtoe@provide.net> wrote:
> }
> }
> }
> }"Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com> wrote in message
> }news:wH1U4.7620$LM4.554932@monger.newsread.com...
> }>
> }> What difference would it make?  Some people in uniforms are shooting at
> }> someone else.  How can this second person make things any worse by
> }> firing back?  At best, he kills them and is killed by the state later.
At
> }> worst, they kill him right there, which is what they're up to anyway.
> }>
> }
> }I have trouble getting anyone in this forum to answer a direct question
with
> }a direct answer.    The question is: Do you believe that they have a
right
> }to self defense in that circumstance?
>
> Of course they do.

Good, we're making progress then.

> My point is that it doesn't matter whether or not
> they have the right; they can't lose any more by defending themselves.
> To assert that they do not have the right to self defense in such a
> situation is to assert that they have a duty to meekly accept being
> executed by anyone with a badge.
>
> }And, as an added question:  From your response, it appears that you
support
> }a police state, is that true?
>
> No, I don't support the situation, I just recognize it.
> --
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From: "James Doemer" <bigtoe@provide.net>
Subject: Re: Keep Elian from the brainwashing in Havana Re: Elian: Send The Boy Home!
Date: 2000/05/15
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