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["Michael Hayes" <mhayes AT mphiles.com>]

I seriously hope you aren't assuming that I'm speaking of an entire race
when I say "all of them."

> Well, considering that the terrorists aboard the airplanes administered
> their own death penalty, I think it is safe to say that a lethal
> injection is not a deterrent.

That's right, and neither is prison for life.  I've yet to hear an
alternative here.

> It was inevitable that some attack would slip through.  Appalling that
> the one that did was of this magnitude.  But intelligence and armed
> forces can only do so much in this type of situation.

I certainly hope that they can do more that "so much" the next time I fly.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: collapse


> Michael Hayes wrote:
> > I'm not disagreeing here, but didn't that leave the rest of them to try
> > harder the next time?
>
> Short of genocide, there will always be "the rest of them".  The
> perpetrators represent an ethnic and religious group which transcends
> national borders.  You can't kill "them" all.  And trying to kill them
> will only result in creating more of "them".
>
> > However, it's also foolish to think that by bombing
> > the hell out of them would have prevented it for the same reason the
death
> > penalty fails as a deterrent.
>
> Well, considering that the terrorists aboard the airplanes administered
> their own death penalty, I think it is safe to say that a lethal
> injection is not a deterrent.
>
> > It's ugly...prevention through
> > intelligence/security, etc. was our last chance to avoid violence in
this
> > case.
>
> It was inevitable that some attack would slip through.  Appalling that
> the one that did was of this magnitude.  But intelligence and armed
> forces can only do so much in this type of situation.
>
> TaB
>
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