On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 02:01:59PM +0200, Anonymous wrote:
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As Tim and others have noted from time to time, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. A corollary to this is that one man's policeman is another man's terrorist. Calling Horiuchi - a //trained sniper// - a policeman is stretching credulity. Consider too that the Weavers weren't threatening anyone when they were initially attacked/ambushed by the Feds - so in what way were the Feds fulfilling a "policeman" role?
In any case, it wasn't really my intention to "compare" the deeds of Horiuchi and McVeigh. I was merely noting that the defense of Horiuchi by Herr Direktor Freeh could have been used nearly verbatim in McVeigh's behalf. As you've pointed out, though, there /is/ that crucial difference though, isn't there? One of them has a badge and gets paid by the taxpayers, which makes him a "policeman."
That's a big difference, of course. Note also that terrorists and freedom fighters are *both* outside the law, and are quite different from police. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html