-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03102818afbb58470a20@[207.167.93.63]>, on 06/04/97 at 10:51 AM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
Yes, innocents die in such attacks. Yes, grieving mothers cry. Yes, yes, yes to all of the denunciations of terrorism. But the fact is that all war is a kind of terrorism, and all wars and all struggles have resulted in deaths of innocents.
(Intereting that Bell is so widely condemned for wanting to transfer the burden to the actual guilty parties, and not the innocents usually consumed as fuel in wars.)
Hi Tim, I think a distinction needs to be made between a war of aggression and people defending against that aggression. For the most part thoses labeled as "terrorist" are the one who are fighting against an aggressor. Most terrorist don't just wake up one morning and decide to start blowing things up. They only become active after a foreign power attacks them and they react in self defence no different if some one breaks into you house and you shoot them (I am sure that there are some liberal winnies here who think that selfdefence is wrong). If you did not have the Federal government acting as an aggressor towards its own citizens then you would not see such things happen. I personnaly think the OK was a poor choice of targets. There are much more strategic targets in DC and MD. You would think that McVeigh, with his military background, would have known better. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM5W+049Co1n+aLhhAQHHcgP+M3V/0z4bTc9RWVF172cMQwCULm2gkwV8 f4/M5FhPn1FgMujf3IJeZp+GHd8ewJ9rmWIRILnwOTbSTUBQuzW7neaeRSLkDA0o pF5Fjc7ApMz0KQZPbVCxI8i64Ca3s56xaos8XMlUcBl1Exz9fH8cf3SKz8tEKTVv OAmhgkYLuWI= =uH9O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----