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   From: c.harmon@mchsi.com   
      
   David Johnston wrote:   
   > On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:07:59 GMT, Clell Harmon    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> David Johnston wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:31:15 -0400, Josh Rambo   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> WHO DECIDES?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What if you're mistaken or simply wrong?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Who decides? Society of course. If there's a great outcry from the   
   >>>> community when you try to prosecute the killer, then the deceased needed   
   >>>> killing.   
   >>> Now that's a dangerous road to walk.  The pivotal moment when Japan   
   >>> abandoned democracy was when the public decided it was fine to kill   
   >>> politicians as long as you were doing it out of sincere patriotic   
   >>> sentiment.   
   >>>   
   >> 	Killing Politicians, and by extension Lawyers, is never a bad thing...   
   >   
   > Japan proved it was.   
   >   
   	Their mistake was leaving some alive.   
      
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