From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 23 17: 5: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DED637B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3A9FF6AB08; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:34:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:34:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Stephen McKay , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror))) Message-ID: <20011024093452.B28396@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011021172133.04293620@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011021172133.04293620@localhost> <200110231322.f9NDMTf21954@dungeon.home> <4.3.2.7.2.20011023103803.04978a90@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011023103803.04978a90@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:39:58AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 23 October 2001 at 10:39:58 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:22 AM 10/23/2001, Stephen McKay wrote: > >> Really? So, they arrest them, try them in a court of law (with appropriate >> witnesses, defense lawyers, and a jury of their peers), convict them, and >> sentence them to ... what? > > Ths is in fact what they do in most cases. And rightly so. > However, when met with deadly force while attempting to apprehend > criminals, the government does have the right to respond with deadly > force. Ah. Where does that right come from? In the constitution? Are there laws in place which define when this right applies, and what "deadly force" means? Does "attempting to apprehend criminals" include driving tanks into towns and firing at random? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message