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Thursday, February 06, 2003
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Russia: Group Lobbies for Guns to Prevent Terror Acts. Last fall's siege of the Dubrovka theater by armed Chechens sparked much debate on how the attack could have been prevented. A new organization believes it has the answer: Let the population arm itself.
That way, the group's members say, instead of accepting their fate, the hostages could have pulled out their legally registered handguns and fought off their captors.
'It would have been impossible to hold [hundreds of] people if one in 10 potential hostages were armed,' said Andrei Vasilievsky, head of the newly formed Civil Arms Union, or Soyuz Grazdanskoye Oruzhiye, which is lobbying for all Russians to have the right to carry arms. [FirearmNews.com]
It's encouraging to see a group like this forming, although I suspect they won't get very far. They're assuming that the authorities in Russia actually want to reduce their citizen's vulnerability to crime and terrorism. That may be true--but it certainly isn't here in the US.
6:04:24 PM 
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N.C. Rep.: WWII Internment Camps Were Meant to Help. Coble, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, said that he didn't agree with the caller but did agree with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who established the internment camps.
"We were at war. They (Japanese-Americans) were an endangered species," Coble said. "For many of these Japanese-Americans, it wasn't safe for them to be on the street." [Fox News]
This is the same "Representative" Coble who backed a proposal that would allow record and movie companies to attack people's computers, prompting the campaign by Libertarian Tara Sue Grubb.
Coble is now arguing that it was okay to throw people into concentration camps to protect them from terrorist attacks. Well, it's no secret that modern terrorists would like to attack the US Congress. Perhaps we should apply Coble's position to the present, and throw all members of Congress into concentration camps.
1:03:38 PM
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A Teen Dies: Who Is Responsible?. The parents of a young man who committed suicide are suing a woman he met on an online discussion board that provides participants with detailed instructions on how to end their lives. They blame the woman for their son's death. Part three in a series by Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]
The author finishes her attack on the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup with a lengthy legalistic speculation on whether a woman who was talking to the man on the phone when he overdosed is responsible for his death. I didn't see so much as one line in the article suggesting that the author was aware that the teen was responsible for his own death.
I found that rather strange, since she described his death (accurately) as suicide numerous times. Well, since he committed suicide, he was responsible--by definition. If anyone else had actually been reponsible, it would have been homicide.
10:28:11 AM
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Government opens investigation of Venevision. 
Representatives of the Minister of Infrastructrure and Telecommunications showed up today at TV station Venevision, owned by the Cisneros Group, to notify the station that it was being investigated for violations of a 1940 law due to the broadcasting of some news that make the Government uncomfortable (my words). Curiously, Chavez' Bolivarian Circles had shown up two hours before the Ministry's lawyers showed up to cheer them when they arrived. Another case of organized state terror. The picture from teh TV shows the lawyers arriving with the bolivarian circles in the background. [Miguel Octavio: Venezuela]
9:32:58 AM
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Powell Fails to Sway Doubters Abroad [AP World News]
He didn't do much to sway this doubter in the US. He was basically accusing Saddam of defying the UN, and providing evidence to back it up. I believe him, but to me defiance of the UN is cause for commendation, not invasion.
9:15:25 AM
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