Re: UFO hiding behind Hale-Bopp

From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Fri Mar 28 1997 - 13:31:44 MST


Robert Schrader wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> > >
> > > The group members apparently committed suicide in the belief a UFO,
> > > shielded behind a comet, would take them to heaven.
> > >
> >
> > THis really ticks me off. They ought to press murder or some other
> > charges against Shramek, the amateur astronomer who claimed that he
> > spotted a huge "saturn-like" ufo behind Hale-Bopp several months ago.
>
> Murder? This is several links away from responsibility. He never
> claimed that it had come to pick up people, nor did he claim that
> one could be picked up via suicide.
> And even if he had, the cult members still have a choice. The worst
> possible crime here is fraud.
>

Fraud is a felony, is it not? If so, the law in California clearly
states that any deaths occuring during the the commission of a felony
are to considered homicides. Ergo, charge the bastard with murder.

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