Re: Giant anti-war demonstration in Melbourne

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 11:47:57 MST

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    > (Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net>):
    > Sometimes this list makes my head spin. I simply can't believe that anyone
    > here would write what Ron h. just posted:
    >
    > > emlyn@healthsolve.com.au writes: Wait a second... the US
    > > has weapons of mass destruction (and seems to want them),"
    >
    > > ##Emlyn, please don't make such unfounded charges without any
    > > evidence. Of course I do understand why you wouldn't offer
    > > evidence of that charge -- there isn't any.
    >
    > So Emlyn has to *prove* that the United States (like the UK and several
    > other nation states) possesses and builds nuclear weapons?
    >
    > He has to provide *evidence* that possession of these weapons resulted from
    > the US (and the other owners) wanting to possess them?
    > Good bloody grief.

    Yeah, that is a pretty stupid thing to say, but I'm sure he was
    thinking bio- and chemical weapons, which the US is rather circumspect
    about, as opposed to nuclear weapons which we are up front about. We've
    certainly had bio/chem weapons in the past, and we freely admit to doing
    "defensive" research, but the US does not publicly admit to having stores
    of deliverable weapons. Frankly, I don't see why it's a big deal anyway.
    A legitimate defense force has every right to use any available
    technology to defend itself. Treaties and laws banning any technology
    are stupid and counterproductive.

    -- 
    Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
    "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
    are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
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