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- From: drw3l@delmarva.evsc.Virginia.EDU (David Robert Walker)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.184444.29099@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:44:44 GMT
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- In article <28289@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
- > And as for Greenpeace wanting to disrupt the process,I just have
- >to say that I thought protest was one of these democratic rights.
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- Protest is a democratic right, but not all forms of protest are. Any
- type of protest that endangers someone is not a legitimate form of
- protest, and that is the heart of the matter here. Greenpeacers may be
- unarmed, but they are still deliberately confrontational, injecting
- themselves into places where they are very likely to become injured,
- and then they can talk about how terrible someone is to injure unarmed
- protesters. In the case at hand, it does not seem unreasonable to me
- that they challenged the Japanese escort; something along the lines
- of, 'we're going to harass this ship containing dangerous fuel, in a
- way that could make an accident, which we abhor, more likely, and we
- dare you to stop us'. The escort did, and so they whine.
-
- Legal protest, IMO, does not permit endangering others, nor does it
- allow one to interfere with legal activities. This includes blockading
- nuclear power plants, abortion clinics, naval weapons stations,
- whatever. You can yell and scream about the activity all you want, but
- if it is legal, you cannot interfere with it.
-
- And if you deliberately put yourself in harm's way, you have no one to
- blame but yourself if harm comes to you. If you really have so few
- brain cells that you deliberately stand in front of a moving truck,
- you deserve to get run over.
-
- Clay D.
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