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To: FJB who wrote (3020)	11/15/2006 2:01:20 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 20106

"I am down with that concept, but what happens when someone wants to take my life. Do I have to let them, because I can't harm them? That is unacceptable.", fight or flight is usually recommended. I am not opposed to either, nor am I apposed the taking of life or to losing my own with just cause. I am also for capital punishment and for killing enemies in war. I don't see capital punishment as 'harmful' to society or to the life of the executed. I do, however, see the condition of one's soul as an aspect of life eternal. I have never seen a heinous child raping murdering thief that I can imagine as a good friend and neighbor after so many years in prison. And I can't imagine releasing such a person back into society as a 'healthy' thing for them or others, nor do I see a life in prison for such a person followed by death (which is really just a prolonged death penalty with the added suffering of a life in prison) to be a healthy thing.

To: FJB who wrote (3020)	11/15/2006 3:31:07 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Reid says terrorist threat "very great" (John Reid, UK Home Secretary) Reuters (UK) ^ \| 11/15/2006 \| Staff today.reuters.co.uk Britain is facing a "very great threat" from a wave of plots among Muslim extremists and a terrorist attack on the UK is highly likely, Home Secretary John Reid said on Wednesday. Echoing a warning last week by the head of domestic spy agency MI5, Reid said authorities were aware of 30 active terrorist plots. "There are a lot of conspiracies out there," Reid told BBC radio. "These 30 are the ones we think are the most serious of them. They are ongoing, they are working, and they have the potential... some will be nearer preparation than others." Asked how serious the situation was, Reid said: "It is a very great threat". MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller said last week that her agency was tracking around 1,600 suspects, many of them Muslim extremists, most of whom were British-born and linked to al Qaeda in Pakistan. She also said young British Muslims were being groomed to become suicide bombers. Britain suffered its worst peacetime terrorist attack in July 2005 when four British Islamists blew themselves up on London's transport network, killing 52 commuters and wounding hundreds. Asked why suspects were not simply arrested and stopped, Reid said it was difficult to gather sufficient information to constitute evidence strong enough for a prosecution. "Information is not evidence, this is one of the great problems we have," he said. "You can have information, you can have suspicion, you can put a case together, but it doesn't naturally constitute evidence, and in this country we have a rule of law which says that in order to try someone you have to have evidence."