From: Bret Kulakovich (bret@bonfireproductions.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 08:23:22 MST
In response to Mike and Alex, although some may think we are being
somewhat extreme: This is similar to the protesters in the US who are
have recently been sneaking onto Air Force bases to hinder/sabotage
the US military effort. The USAF has now stated that anyone sneaking
onto Air Force bases will be shot. (period)
So any day now the news will undoubtedly be that someone trespassed
onto a military base and was, actually, shot.
Does this criminalize the US, the USAF, or the US government? Well,
no. "US Citizen" is not a license to do whatever you damn well
please, and does not condone immunities or for that matter super
powers.
Which brings me to the bulldozer. Any loss of life is a sad affair.
But social protest must abide by higher laws, and I don't mean
international law over local law, I mean the laws of physics. You
shouldn't even cross the street without making eye contact with the
person in the car on the stop line, nevermind jump/walk or otherwise
locomote in front of bulldozers.
I find myself in agreement with the harsh reality of illegal
combatants, and wonder if that will carry over onto American soil
with this whole Air Base fiasco.
Bret Kulakovich
> >alexboko@umich.edu:
> > 2. She deliberately put herself in harm's way, and became a contender
> > for 2003's Darwin Awards result.
> >
> >
> > That being said, it is still an undisputed fact that an Israeli Army
> > bulldozer crushed to death an American citizen engaged in
> > nonviolent, unarmed, political protest. When someone like Saddam
> > Hussein does that to "his own" citizens, we
> >
> > add that to the long list of reasons justifying his ouster.
>Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com>:
>What she did was make herself an enemy combatant by acting as a human
>shield for illegal combatant members of a terrorist guerrilla
>insurgency. What SHE did is a war crime, and her Palestinian hosts are
>similarly and specifically war criminals for allowing her to do it.
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