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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (39266)	3/18/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 67261

>No no no. Not merely a group. A group authorized by the government.< But of course. My point was that a government is but a group of people. >The Weathermen were a group of people during the Vietnam war. On principle they would have killed Nixon if they could have. You cannot compare the work of a jury and the Weatherman.< I do no such thing. I simply argue that in the case of one human's making an unfounded claim against the entire life of another, and then implementing the claim with no mitigating circumstances (as was the case with Hitler), there is created a natural logical disparity. A group of people should have on this principle aimed to correct the disparity. Had Nixon done what Hitler did, then the Weathermen would have been justified in lobbying the larger government for his death. If the larger government had failed to kill Nixon, then that government would have been derelict in fulfilling the demands of natural principle. Had the Weathermen then corrected the disparity themselves, they would have been at war with the larger government. While to my mind there is no argument as to the existence of the disparity, we enter a different matter as to how best to correct it. A civilized government will correct it on the principle I have outlined. But should it fail to do so, then that government in effect acts barbarously, against the nature of civility. It seems reasonable to me that those who adhere to the principle demanding the death of those who perpetrate unmitigated murder should war against a barbarous society. Does this mean those who murder abortionists are justified? Not at all, as there are indeed certifiable mitigating factors involved with most abortion murders. These factors will necessarily prohibit our assigning the penalty of death to most abortionists and their accessories.