At 11:08 -1000 7/22/00, Reese wrote:
>At 06:44 PM 21/07/00 -0700, Kristen Tsolis wrote:
>
><snip of long, carefully read address on Aum Shinrikyo and PSIA
>
>>But that does not necessarily warrant the wide-scale surveillance of all Aum
>>members or the activities of the PSIA.
>
>I don't want to sound statist.
>However,
>I fail to see how a homogenous group of sarin-gas-dispersing
>individuals should be given a clean bill of health just because they
>adopted a new corporate name.
Because the guilty parties have been found and presumably punished
for the illegal actions. To put it more specifically, the
sarin-gas-dispersing individuals are presumed to have been found and
subsequently removed from the organization. Mere membership in an
organization is not/should not be a crime
>Had they disbanded, and were all former members subject to such
>surveillance, I might feel differently.
Oh? How long do they have to be under surveillance before they
regain the right to innocent until proven guilty?
--
Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#23758827
_______________________________________________________________________________
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
