Iraq and legality again Re: [extropy-chat] Professor Being Sued Over Anti-Aging Comments

[Mike Lorrey]

--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/22/05, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > 
> > This is also wrong, incorrect, not in accordance with the facts.
> There
> > had a been an election. Noriega lost. Noriega refused to admit
> defeat,
> > had his forces beat up and imprisone those who protested (and shot
> a US
> > military officer). The winner fled the country and requested our
> > assistance in restoring the rightfully elected government to power.
> > Under the Organization of American States Charter, the US
> government
> > was bound to do so for a co-signatory government. These are the
> facts.
> > I know from personal experience. To claim otherwise is to
> perpetrate a
> > fraud for the sake of anti-US propaganda.
> > 
> > Stop it.
> > 
> 
> But, but, but,.... Mike, you can't just selectively quote the facts
> you happen to like, and omit other facts that tell a different story.
> The US was certainly not squeaky clean in the Noriega affair.
> 
> Noriega was in the pay of, and trained by, the CIA, possibly from as
> early as 1960 until 1988. Then he fell out with his US paymasters.

"facts" that 'tell' a different story are propaganda. A law abiding
person is a law abiding person until the day they break the law. 

Whether that person was a high muckity muck or just a street thug and
undercover informant of the Chief of Police is immaterial to the fact
that the law was broken. Saying the Chief was corrupt because of his
prior association with the UI is immaterial to the case and not
justification for saying the UI's arrest for hacking an election and
killing a cop was unjust. Whether the Chief overlooked prior violations
of pickpocketing and selling pot is immaterial to whether or not in the
final instance, the UI killed a cop, hacked an election, and went over
the line of official tolerance. This is the sort of situation Noriega
put himself in.

Anything else said is tantamount to the excuse making one hears from
mob lawyers.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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