From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 07:42:51 MST
>From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>Kids with Bombs
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/opinion/05KRIS.html?pagewanted
>=print&position=top
>I'd be interested in the libertarian take on the arguments.
>Precisely when is it reasonable to strap bombs ones body
>and kill non-military personnel to eliminate the "oppressors"?
I am not a card carrying Libertarian, but this fits the definition
of terrorism in my book.
>After all, aren't the Palestinians simply trying to create an
>independent state where they can have "self-direction" (principle
>6) and just opposing "authoritarian social control" that prevents
>a "open" society (principle 5)?
No, not at all. What the Palestinians have been trying to do since
the day Israel was formed is destroy Israel, that's how the
Israelis became occupiers.
Violation of all the principals.
Brian
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