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  4. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  5. Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
  6. In-Reply-To: kudzu@netcom.com's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:03:20 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <JMC.92Nov9171341@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <1992Nov9.034442.12361@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <JMC.92Nov8204409@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  12.     <1992Nov9.145946.4373@inel.gov> <1992Nov9.210320.481@netcom.com>
  13. Date: 9 Nov 92 17:13:41
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  15.  
  16. If the U.S. were transporting the plutonium, and a U.S. ship jostled
  17. the Greenpeace ship, the Greenpeace people could hope to find a U.S.
  18. judge who would declare their actions necessary to save the world no
  19. matter how much they violated the rules of navigation.  In a French or
  20. Japanese court, the case would probably be thrown out right away.
  21. Also whatever happened, if it were a U.S. matter, the newspapers, e.g.
  22. the Washington Post (which some years ago declared itself committed
  23. rather than objective in environmental matters) would take their part
  24. strongly enough so that Greenpeace would come out ahead financially
  25. regardless of what happened in court.
  26.  
  27. It may still work out to Greenpeace's financial benefit.  How many
  28. readers find that Greenpeace attempts at interfering with the
  29. transport, over and above issuing statements of objection, make these
  30. readers more likely to contribute to Greenpeace?  The key thing in
  31. discouraging Greenpeace would be for the French to keep the boat they
  32. boarded tied up in dock in legal proceedings long enough for dockage
  33. charges to eat up the value of the boat.
  34. --
  35. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  36. *
  37. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
  38.  
  39.