Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:08:38 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror))) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011023200438.04daac60@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011024093452.B28396@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011023103803.04978a90@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011021172133.04293620@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011021172133.04293620@localhost> <200110231322.f9NDMTf21954@dungeon.home> <4.3.2.7.2.20011023103803.04978a90@localhost>
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At 06:04 PM 10/23/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: >> However, when met with deadly force while attempting to apprehend >> criminals, the government does have the right to respond with deadly >> force. > >Ah. Where does that right come from? In the constitution? The constitutions (or equivalent documents) of all democratic governments accord them the right to keep the peace and apprehend criminals. And rightly so. >Are there >laws in place which define when this right applies, and what "deadly >force" means? In every democracy of which I am aware. >Does "attempting to apprehend criminals" include >driving tanks into towns and firing at random? No. And the Israelis are not doing that. The Egyptians did when they attacked Israel in 1967 (which is why Israel, justifiably, took the West Bank and Gaza... and kept them until it foolishly began ceding territory to terrorists in a misguided program of appeasement). --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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