On 4 Jun 2002 at 11:08, Chuck Ryan wrote:

> These "criminals" are funded by government's hostile to the US. If
> someone hires a person to kill me, am I not justified in going after
> the employer as well as the employee?

Not with a gun, or a bomb.  This is the distinction between crime and
war.  The former must be dealt with by due process or the social
conventions that support peaceful resolution of conflicting desires
are undermined.  You can see what results when this happens by
surveying the histories of any number of current African countries, or
European ones for that matter.

A war has objectives, can have a victor, and regardless of victory
eventually ends.  Criminals like OBL do not want peace and they will
never accept any settlement, they just want to kill.  That is the
difference.

Regards,
Jim

---     e-mail is NOT a secure channel
James B. Byrne                mailto:[log in to unmask]
Harte & Lyne Limited          http://www.harte-lyne.ca
9 Brockley Drive              vox: +1 905 561 1241
Hamilton, Ontario             fax: +1 905 561 0757
Canada  L8E 3C3

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *