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- From: rstevew@deeptht.armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.censorship,alt.sex,tor.general
- Subject: Re: Surprise. You've made the evening news again.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.093030.17849@deeptht.armory.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 09:30:30 GMT
- References: <1992Jul12.152040.9493@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1992Jul13.073249.28035@deeptht.armory.com> <TT.92Jul15084915@tarzan.jyu.fi>
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- In article <TT.92Jul15084915@tarzan.jyu.fi> tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul13.073249.28035@deeptht.armory.com> rstevew@deeptht.armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
- >
- >>In fact, I, like amnesty international and other such groups adhere to
- >>a rather strict interpretation of human rights. Any one who gets in
- >>the way of human rights, most especially the right to say ANYTHING
- >>should be taken out and shot.
- >
- >I feel compelled to point out that Amnesty International certainly
- >wouldn't support that last statement. They (and I) think that
- >being shot somehow violates one's human rights.
- >Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
- ----------------------------
- Hell yes it violates their rights, else what's the point. I think that
- Saddam Hussein has violated so many people's human rights that he
- deserves to be flayed and quartered on international TV. And I hope we
- get the chance. Also, though I admit to intentional, nay terminal
- cuteness, the juxtaposition of my two sentences was supposed to bait
- you into defending Amnesty International. That doesn't mean I need to.
- I support AI when they help good people, and I would oppose them if
- they helped bad people. A bad person is one who has killed thousands
- or millions for no good reason. (Yes, there might be a good reason,
- recall the Nazi's).
-
- I do rather hope that we have the good sense to destroy the personal
- bodies of the ruling council of Iraq this time, and that we can be
- even more precise in our air war. If we had wanted Saddam Hussein, I
- think we could have had him before. It was a reasonable idea not to
- martyr him last time and leave him stewing, but he is playing tricks
- with his nuclear program again and the location of his latest chinese
- acqisition, more scud's. I think it is time to declare him an
- international terrorist and renounce his human rights formally.
- - Steve Walz
-