From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 17:34:35 MDT
Technotranscendence wrote:
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> The bigger problem, for me, though is how the FBI was able to jerk
> people around. Yeah, I don't particularly want pipe bombers running
> around blowing up stuff, but I'm much more fearful of a real police
> state than alleged ecoterrorists -- especially if the latter are so
> incompetent they blow themselves up without taking others. I still take
> the standard knee-jerk libertarian position here: government is the
> biggest criminal in history -- all others are chump change. (Or to put
> it in strictly methodologically individualist terms: the biggest
> criminals in history organize themselves into governments.:)
But if a car full of palestinians who belonged to the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade blew up from a pipe bomb in it, could ANYBODY reasonably make a
claim that a) it wasn't their bomb, b) it was planted by Israelis, or c)
they aren't terrorists, even if they are incompetent ones, and d) that
they had a right to sue, and win, against tv news netoworks for
reporting them as terrorists?
All that the EF! case is about is that EF went venue shopping to get a
judge and jury who support environmentalism, and then proceeded to treat
the suit as a fundraising operation for the movement. It also
illustrates how kooky much of Kalifornia is.
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