in defense on Lon Horiuchi
Kent Crispin
kent at songbird.com
Sat Sep 13 23:19:19 PDT 1997
On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 02:01:59PM +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>
[...]
> 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.
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