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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nealm who wrote (6550)	5/28/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

>>The lives and freedom of the people who lived inside the house were just as important as the agents who conducted that raid.<< And there's no greater "freedom" than the freedom to live another day. Yes, we'll never know if someone would have been killed if Reno took another path. But no one was killed as a result of what she did, so perhaps she was quite correct in her assessment, no? I don't mean to offend, but I think you are somewhat naive here as to the potential for violence. No one has to prove after the fact that there was a potential for violence. There is always the potential for violence in a superheated, emotional situation. Spend some time with homicide detectives. They'll tell you that most murderers in crime of passion cases never killed anyone before. Nor was there any sign that they would. The 13 year old who killed his teacher the other day was a good student; not previously violent. Timothy McVeigh didn't have a history of bombing federal buildings; Oklahoma City was his first time. If someone gets killed because we're being oh-so-delicate about the situation, you can't just say, "ooops...I goofed." Dead is dead is dead. Dershowitz and his ilk will never understand this because he is too cowardly ever to risk his life for anyone or any thing. It is easy to risk other people's lives "on principle."