Re: Bombings, Surveillance, and Free Societies

[Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>]

At 07:41 PM 3/4/96 -0800, Tim wrote:

>Let me use the language Bill Stewart used a while back, language which
>skirts the issue of "right" and "wrong" even more neatly than I did (when I
>said the Jews were "asking for trouble"):
>
>"If a religious group uses force to expel the current occupants of a desert
>region, and expels them to just beyond their borders, it is "unsurprising"
>that those expelled, and their children, and their children's children,
>will swear a blood oath to drive the group into the sea."

That wasn't me, though I've said similar things about terrorism against
governments - those that go out of their way to attack and harass people
shouldn't be surprised when people attack them in return.