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To: Bosco who wrote (8751)	6/17/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Bosco- I have been admonished- with some justification, I think- for suggesting in post 8570 that you defended such things as summary execution or imprisonment of dissidents. To the extent that the following implies that you do, I regret the implication. <<Am I to suppose that rotting in some hellhole of a Chinese prison for 10+ years, or facing summary execution- or execution after a closed trial where the verdict was predetermined- is somehow appropriate because these people had not achieved your standard of "genuiness"?>> There is no logical connection between your charge that the Tiananmen protesters were puppets who lacked "genuineness", and the support of either their imprisonment or summary execution (or execution after closed trials in which the verdict was pre-determined). I would note that the current regime's acceptance of those executions and failure to punish those responsible for them, makes such extra-juridicial procedures more likely to occur in the future. Indeed, I think it indicates that such procedures against dissidents are countenanced by the current regime in Beijing. Larry