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

[Dirk Bruere]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 6/22/05, Mike Lorrey wrote:
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>>>This is also wrong, incorrect, not in accordance with the facts.
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>>There
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>>>had a been an election. Noriega lost. Noriega refused to admit
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>>defeat,
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>>>had his forces beat up and imprisone those who protested (and shot
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>>a US
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>>>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
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>>government
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>>>was bound to do so for a co-signatory government. These are the
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>>facts.
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>>>I know from personal experience. To claim otherwise is to
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>>perpetrate a
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>>>fraud for the sake of anti-US propaganda.
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>>>Stop it.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>"facts" that 'tell' a different story are propaganda. A law abiding
>person is a law abiding person until the day they break the law. 
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>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.
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>Anything else said is tantamount to the excuse making one hears from
>mob lawyers.
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If Noriega broke Panamanian law it was up to the people of Panama to 
deal with it.
Not the US.
If Noriega broke US law - from Panama - it was up to the people of 
Panama to deal with it at the request of the US
End of story.

-- 
Dirk

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