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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Original Message dated 1/24/02, 2:14:01
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Author: "Jackson, Harry"
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Re: RE: [Gllug] Greenhouse emissions (was
Geforce2):</P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>>
From: Bruce Richardson [<A HREF="mailto:itsbruce@uklinux.net">mailto:itsbruce@uklinux.net</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2>> If you can say
"we'll ignore the law in this case because </FONT><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>
*we* know it is right" then you have no law, just a </FONT><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>
comforting lie. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> If we where unable to change, mould or create new
rules/laws then where would we be.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>You didn't say anything about creating new law - for
which there is a legal process - but about breaking existing ones to
suit circumstances. Besides, a new law in favour of selective torture
would (in both the US and Europe) be in breach of the constitutional
conventions on which law is based. Since the idea of a constitution is
that it represents certain basics that no law should break, that's a
bit of an obstacle.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>President Bush has stated (and according to polls most
Americans agree with him) that the US was attacked by people who envy
US freedoms and ideals (as enshrined in their constitution). Reducing
those freedoms and betraying those ideals as part of the response to
the attack is irony beyond satire.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2><CODE><FONT SIZE=3>Bruce</FONT></CODE></FONT></P>
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