From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 09:27:25 MDT
"Damien Sullivan" <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> Wrote:
> No. The person you think responsible for your grievance is
>'punished'. What if you're wrong?
Then I'm wrong, it still beats war and mass death. If I never did anything
if there was a possibility I might be making an error then I would be
paralyzed and never do anything at all.
>Fair trials, due process?
What a horrible idea! There are some things that are not just academic
exercises, there are some things that must work. You are asking me to stake
my life on international law, something with a long history of being
impotent cowardly and incompetent, and that is something I do not wish to
do.
> I read recently about how John Adams, near the beginning of the
>Revolution, defended a British officer in a manslaughter trial
That's true and much to his credit, however just a few years later when he
was president Adams was responsible for the shameful and blatantly
unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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