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From: carr@pi.cs.unc.edu (Michael Carr)
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Subject: Re: stoke up the ovens
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Date: 12 Jul 90 17:10:09 GMT
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In article <23405@boulder.Colorado.EDU> jeffm@tigger.colorado.edu (Jeff McWhirter) writes:
>The Senate proposes the death penalty for the following crimes:
>Destruction of aircraft (better not crash that plane ) 
>Destruction of motor vehicle  (this surely warrants the death penalty)
>Espionage 
>Arson of federal property (watch those campfires in the Natl. forests)
>Arson of property in interstate commerce 
>Wrecking a train
>Mailing of injurious articles (better not mail a pack of cigarettes)
>Bank robbery
>Treason (don't talk bad about  the good old USA)
>Kidnapping
>Hostage taking
>Major crime by drug kingpin (what major crimes aren't covered in this list 
>already??)
>Attempted homicide by drug kingpin while  seeking to obstruct justice
>Unintentional killing by drug felon involving aggravated recklessness 
>(does this include drunk drivers??)
>Use of a fire arm in violent crime or drug trafficking
>Murder of family member of federal official
>Murder of member of congress, cabinet, or Supreme court
>Murder of nuclear regulatory inspector,federal official,federal witness,
>horse inspector,meat inspector, poultry inspector, egg products inspector,
>foreign official, Agriculture dept. official
>

	This is serious??!!! How much of this was in that bullshit crime bill
that just passed in the Senate? Is this it? This is way out of hand. 

	I've only listed what I thought were some of the more outrageous ones
( I'm against the death penalty in general, but don't want to start that war
again ). BTW, what the hell constitutes "treason" ??? This country is getting
scarier every day.

	Does anyone know how close this is to being law? All the congress-
critters are wetting their pants trying to look tough on crime for the
upcoming elections so this kind of dangerous stuff is probably going to
pass. 

	"Destruction of a motor vehicle" ??!!!?? 
	This shit + RICO abuse = lots of dead people

	Argghh, you just ruined my day!  :-(  See you on death row!

		Mike Carr
		carr@cs.unc.edu

OK, so maybe I'm a little alarmist, but if we don't fight back we'll wake up
some morning with the FBI/CIA in our face, it seems sometimes.


" If I repent anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
  What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?"  Henry David Thoreau

  Mike Carr, expressing his own opinions at:  carr@cs.unc.edu