| From: | shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam) |
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| Subject: | Re: More discussion |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:19:02 GMT |
>>>>>[You fascinate me, Commander, in that we are so close and yet so far
apart.
I don't ignore the law lightly, but I will break it when I must.
"It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do: but what humanity, reason
and justice tell me I ought to do." (Edmund Burke again). You seek justice,
and see that the law is the only way to provide it. I believe Burke,
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny." Or even "People crushed by
law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will
be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to
lose will always be dangerous." (you may note I like Burke <g>)
We have both made sacrifices for what we believed in: quite similar ones,
in fact, I was married once also. Like you, I believe that what I do is
right: there is little else I can believe wholeheartedly in.
You ask whether I or the corporations and criminals I fight are the greatest
danger... and I see your point. Yet I return the question: to an individual
citizen who is living by the law, which is the greater threat? If I destroy
a narcotics supplier, or kidnap or kill a murderer, I have saved lives.
When I can use the law, I do, but those occasions are rare, and often have
to be manufactured.
Perhaps I am too focussed on the short term, and too vulnerable to the
suffering of individuals, yet that is what I am and what I do. I cannot
walk away, or wait for the gyrations of lawyers, while innocent people
suffer and die and I have the means to aid them.
If that makes me a criminal, then I cannot make myself regret it. If that
does harm, then weigh it against the people saved, the victims avenged.
I care more for living people than abstract concepts.
Be careful, Commander: I tell you again, you will not bring me in alive.
One reason I despise the upper echelons of the corporations so much is
that they use men and women I respect, like yourself, to do their work:
now I must either fight you and your men, or die myself, and this is an
agonising situation.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <18:01:12/03-28-57>
