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To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping
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At 08:36 PM 10/23/2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

>You're dodging the subject. 

Not at all.

>Anyway, you're also wrong.

Your ignorance of the facts does not mean that I
am incorrect.

>  In the
>democracies of which *I'm* aware, there is a due course of justice.
>It doesn't involve invading places and shooting first.  Any such
>invasion is outside the law.  If you can make me aware of any
>democracy whose laws allow this, then you will be right.

There are many. However, the most relevant example happens to
be the United States. (Australia probably allows such things
as "no-knock searches" and SWAT teams, too, since -- at least
up until September 11th -- it rated slightly lower on the civil
liberties scale than the US.)

>> Do you know what a SWAT team is?
>
>No.

Then look it up on the Web....

--Brett


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