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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (96365)	4/26/2003 3:22:03 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

It's always entertaining to read non-lawyers frothing at the mouth about Guantanamo. I have to admit, it's even more entertaining to read lawyers frothing at the mouth about Guantanamo. Reason being that terrorism is such a cute response to the inexorable fact that governments far outweigh terrorist movements - hence the nature of asymmetrical warfare. "We can do anything because you're bigger than us! We can blow up schools and birthday parties, we can destroy hospitals and restaurants, it's all ok!" "Maybe so, but the state is a leviathan, and can swallow you up, forever." "No fair!" (Muted sound of munching.) (Cut to activists posing as human rights advocates, running around, thumbing through law books.) "It says right here that you have to let enemy combatants go! These guys are enemies! And they are combatants! Therefore they are enemy combatants! You must let them go!" (Leviathan ceases munching for a moment, burps, and resumes munching.) (Leviathans, you see, only talk to other leviathans.)

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