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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (88045)	11/23/2004 11:36:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) of 793531

I get the sense there's more than he's saying UW has been helping Hmong refugees from Vietnamese persecution establish new lives in the US. As he said, many escaped from Vietnam only to find themselves in the killing fields of Cambodia. If this man was there, he would have been a very young man, and may have experienced horrors we can't even imagine. I have never experienced the heat of battle. I did have one experience when a man broke into my apartment and tried to rape me, and I took the knife away from him and chased him out of my apartment. If I had managed to stab him in the back, I don't think I would have been in any trouble. Later the police showed me that I ripped my bedroom door off one of the hinges opening it to go after him. I have no idea how I did that. People do strange things under pressure. Nevertheless, the law in the US is that you can repel force with force, and you can repel deadly force with deadly force, and you are even given some leeway for heat of passion, because the law does not expect you to think rationally when under extreme pressure. But you are not allowed to kill people who do not pose a threat.

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