[Gllug] Greenhouse emissions (was Geforce2)

[Bruce Richardson]

Original Message dated 1/24/02, 2:14:01 PM
Author: "Jackson, Harry" <HJackson at colt-telecom.com>
Re: RE: [Gllug] Greenhouse emissions (was Geforce2):



> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:itsbruce at uklinux.net] 
> 
> If you can say "we'll ignore the law in this case because 
> *we* know it is right" then you have no law, just a 
> comforting lie.  

> If we where unable to change, mould or create new rules/laws then where 
would we be.
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.

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.
-- 

Bruce
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