> We don't give robbers the death penalty. It is a disproportionate
> punishment (those who disagree are invited to respond to my other message
> raising this point).
>
> Hal
Actually, we *do* give robbers the death penalty, if they steal for the purpose
of espionage.
(The Rosenbergs were executed for stealing national security secrets.)
--J. R.
"I believe that in the United States we are presently heading down
a volatile path -- a path that leads to ethnic warfare and to the
development of collectivist, authoritarian, and racialist enclaves."
-- http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/
[Amara Graps Collection]
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