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- From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
- Subject: Re: drug dealers on the high seas (was Risks of Using PGP 2.0)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.040221.12267@colnet.cmhnet.org>
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- References: <1992Dec1.132706.26133@fasttech.com> <lhq9niINNjjb@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <10DEC199213473080@pavo.concordia.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:02:21 GMT
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- > Actually, it IS a crime to transport drugs anywhere in the world. There
- >is NOT country that has made it legal.
-
- Try the United States -- specifically, the 21st amendment to the United States
- Constitution, which expressly makes it legal to manufacture, transport, and
- sell intoxicating liquors in the US, except as restricted by state law.
- Suppose a ship carrying Kentucky's finest bound for Europe (with the newly
- relaxed trade tariffs) were seized on the high seas by a Middle Eastern
- nation wherein consumption of alcohol was strictly verbotem. Now, further
- suppose the ship's crew were taken back to that nation, tried, found guilty,
- and sentenced to be jailed for life.
-
- Is this justice?
-
- How is this tangibly different from the scenerio that has been previously
- reported here?
- --
- Rob Stampfli rob@colnet.cmhnet.org The neat thing about standards:
- 614-864-9377 HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh There are so many to choose from.
-