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- From: felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo)
- Subject: Re: drug dealers on the high seas (was Risks of Using PGP 2.0)
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:10:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.151003.10710@coop.com>
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- res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:
- >>Actually, it IS a crime to transport drugs anywhere in the world. There
- >>is NO 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?
-
- The government under which the ship was flying a flag does not
- have an amendment to its constitution legalizing cocaine or the
- distribution of cocaine, for one thing. For another, the boat
- in your utterly specious example is heading towards Europe, not
- a Middle Eastern nation.
-
- If you will recall from the initial posting, the smugglers in
- question were bound for Canada with illegal cargo [no matter who
- you ask] and were known by all sorts of law enforcement officials
- to be in the act of preparing for a crime.
-
- I'm sure the U.S. could have called the Canadians up and had them
- go through the trouble of getting a boat out and making the arrest,
- but if they're on the scene, why bother? Why not make a friendly
- gesture towards our similar-minded brother nation?
-
- Civil rights have their place. But if you walk up to my neighbor's
- house with a rocket launcher, aim it, load it, and point it at his
- front door -- no matter whether you're on public property or not,
- and no matter whether I'm the party that would get injured, don't
- you think it's a good idea for me to try to put a stop to you?
-
- >--
- >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.
-