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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
To the extent someone kills here because of, say, the victims race, no one said that separate protests or calls for education or whatever would be improper. The only point made was that a separate crime hadn't been committed.
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Yet today's points suggest that we should consider treating things like McVeigh's act as an Act of War and that apprehension and prosecution of those offenders, either here or elsewhere, should be analogous to the treatment of the yutzes now occupying a wet spot on a Yemeni highway.
My response (among others embodied in Glass Man) is that entertaining these thoughts is fun, because it allows us to dream big, but it's a bit nonsensical because the thought of calling in Marine airstrikes in Butte to wipe out the Third United Patriots of Montana, or in lower Manhattan to eradicate Mafia remnants is probably beyond what even Ashcroft could've hoped for.
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