Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:44:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror))) Message-ID: <20011024114401.D28396@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011023200438.04daac60@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:08:38PM -0600 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> <20011024093452.B28396@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011023200438.04daac60@localhost>
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On Tuesday, 23 October 2001 at 20:08:38 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:04 PM 10/23/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> 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? > > The constitutions (or equivalent documents) of all democratic > governments accord them the right to keep the peace and apprehend > criminals. And rightly so. Correct, but this has nothing to do with apprehension. >> Are there laws in place which define when this right applies, and >> what "deadly force" means? > > In every democracy of which I am aware. In the democracies of which I'm aware, there is a due course of justice. It doesn't involve invading places and shooting first. >> Does "attempting to apprehend criminals" include driving tanks into >> towns and firing at random? > > No. And the Israelis are not doing that. It looks very much like it to me. What am I missing? 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
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