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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: mistermj who wrote (777)12/19/2002 11:38:04 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 15987
 
A crime does not become a non-crime because of an alleged outcome whereby some things would be worse if it had not been committed.

I wrote quite a bit and posted links to this. I think you can find quite a few if you search.



To: mistermj who wrote (777)12/19/2002 11:55:24 AM
From: zonder  Respond to of 15987
 
By the way, here is a UN site where what I have said to you is cited as one of the proposed definitions of "terrorism".

Proposed Definitions of Terrorism

3. Short legal definition proposed by A. P. Schmid to United Nations Crime Branch (1992):

Act of Terrorism = Peacetime Equivalent of War Crime

undcp.org



To: mistermj who wrote (777)12/23/2002 11:07:10 AM
From: jlallen  Respond to of 15987
 
I have a problem categorizing that as a war crime.

So does anyone who thinks rationally. JLA