From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 13:49:46 MDT
John K Clark wrote:
> "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.
>
Please think out the consequences. The above means that any
group that thinks you are responsible for their grievances can
legitimately do the same to you and yours without an procedure
capable of defending you in place. Is this what you advocate?
> >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.
>
Unless you want to live in a jungle totally by the power of
might of your gang alone, the rule of law is precisely what your
life depends upon. International law is incompetent when major
players, like US, don't support it and flout it any time they wish.
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