From: Gary Denton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Being stupid doesn't get a criminal out of being prosecuted for
his
crimes, why should it in this case? It's intent that counts,
isn't
it?
I forget if it was Wolfowitz or Perle who thought he shouldn't be
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:52:28 -0500, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Gary Denton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Being stupid doesn't get a criminal out of being prosecuted for
his
crimes, why should it in this case? It's intent that counts,
isn't
John Horn wrote:
I agree with that but it is a completely different issue. If
someone was planning on blowing up the Lincoln Memorial with a pack
of playing cards they would still be liable to be prosecuted with
that even if it is completely impossible, right?
I see your point, but would the
At 08:11 PM 6/14/04 -0500, Gary Denton wrote:
Actually, I don't think so. If I pulled out my banana and said I was
going to vaporize you with it I would not be charged with murder.
I dunno. I was in a movie some years back where I used a banana¹ as a
lethal weapon.
_
¹Several bananas
From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Justice Department didn't respond directly when asked this
week
whether it had consulted with experts and knew that uranium
wouldn't
make a dirty bomb.
Instead, spokesman Mark Corallo said Padilla's statements, in view
of
his al-Qaida
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:00:56 -0500, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Justice Department didn't respond directly when asked this
week
whether it had consulted with experts and knew that uranium
wouldn't
make a dirty bomb.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20040609/ap_on_sc/dirty_bomb_dud
http://tinyurl.com/2kjku
The dirty bomb allegedly planned by terror suspect Jose Padilla
would have been a dud, not the radiological threat portrayed last week
by federal authorities, scientists say.
At a June 1 news
