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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Drieux, try decaf!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.035422.9504@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:54:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.022729.15927@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- >mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >] In article <1993Jan24.114141.9949@netcom.com> harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
- >]
- >] >Two laws I've suggested would work well here: 1) Prosecute minorities
- >] >as adults when they commit gang-related crimes. 2) For legal
- >] >purposes, treat groups of protestors as ad hoc gangs. This would put
- >] >an end to the tactics of using children who are for all intents and
- >] >purposes currently immune to legal recourse for their terroristic
- >] >actions.
- >] >
- >] Just a minor point, but your limitation of prosecuting gang-related
- >] crimes as adults to minorities strikes me as fairly racist. Are you
- >] operating under the false impression that gang members are minorites?
- >
- >one who has not yet reached the age of consent is
- >construed to be a 'minor' and you will notice that
- >the construct of Gregory's post is in regards to
- >prosecuting such 'minorities' as adults, NOT as CAUCASIANS!!!!
- >
- Which is why I phrased my response in a manner which left the way open
- for correction on his part Drieux. had his word choice not been
- ambiguous, I would have either ignored it (had it been clearly about
- minors) or reacted more forcefully (had it been clearly racist).
-
- >some days the urge to be PolitikallyKorrekt is just too
- >irresistible, eh?
-
- Is it? I really wouldn't know. It's not something I'm accused of very
- often.
-
- >sometimes, a thing will happen after another thing,
- >and they may not be connected.....
-
- I've read enough of your articles to be absolutely *certain* that this
- is true.
-
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- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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