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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ish who wrote (34227)4/9/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 

Ish, Steve was asking whether the US government has the RIGHT to kill you, if it pleases.

Waco and Ruby Ridge are not examples of the government's exercise of such a presumed or delegated right. Nor are cases where the wrong house is raided. They are examples of -- what? -- bumbling incompetence, over-zealousness, whatever. As for Kent State, I would not identify rattled national guardsmen with "the US government."

On the killing of native Americans you are on sounder ground. Here, quite clearly, the non-native Americans quite clearly felt their government had the "right" -- even the duty -- to get rid of the Indians. In fact, they often anticipated the government by doing it themselves. Read what happened to the Indians of California...ugh!..

Joan
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