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- From: gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <28409@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:54:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.192427.931@iti.org> <1e923iINN7e2@gap.caltech.edu> <28289@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.184444.29099@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- drw3l@delmarva.evsc.Virginia.EDU (David Robert Walker) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >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.
-
-
- I don't think that it's clear that lives were in danger,and in
- any case I don't think that that's the point.
- Just because something is legal doesn't mean that it is ethical
- or bearable.The classic example of this is British rule over North
- America, which wasentirely legal under the laws operating at the time.
- What it was not,however,was reasonable,and the overthrow of this was
- entirely justified,even though it not only endangered lives,but directly
- cost a large number.
- If Greenpeace wish to make the point that trying to ship large
- amounts of the most toxic substance known,which also happens to be
- exceedingly fissionable,is a bit stupid,then their avenues are limited.
- Their usual tactic is to put their bodies in the front line,and this is
- what they`ve been doing here.If you have evidence of them attempting to
- injure people,why don't you tell us what it is? I can't really see how
- it is that this differs from (for instance) their "occupation" of the
- seas around French atmospheric H-bomb tests.
-
-
- G.
-