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    A Measured Response (was re: LP statement on terrorist attacks) —Richard Marchetti
   Hey: I'll give the LP statement this much (and beyond this I just don't care what else they said) -- it suggests a course of action that is a hell of a lot more reasonable than what many here have been offering up of late. It suggests we make a very (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)  
   
        Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Amy Hughes
   (...) I'll grant only that we share much genetic material. Maybe even moreso than we do with, say, mold spores. (...) What would you consider a measured response? Perhaps we could invite Bin Laden to a national barbeque and have a huge love- in, (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) I disagree with Richard and agree with you on this. I have said before that I personally require certain standards of behaviour before I will consider someone as human (and not merely genetically related to me). These terrorists, by my (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Amy Hughes
      (...) My apologies. I forgot which emoticon to use to indicate "user is being sarcastic and employing gross exaggeration" :-) Amy (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Ross Crawford
      (...) And I think that's going way too far. Their genes have little if anything to do with what they've done. Sweeping statements like this are unlikely to solve anything, and they just serve to increase hate in the community. How do you think (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Scott Arthur
      "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GJowB8.H8s@lugnet.com... (...) than we (...) that (...) Seriously, what nation in the world has not "initiated the use of force in a cowardly and craven manner against innocents"? (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Lawrence Wilkes
      "Amy Hughes" <lugnews@amyhughes.org> wrote in message news:GJotMs.A8t@lugnet.com... (...) Governments hug terrorists everyday. Yasser Arafat was the bin Laden of his day Irish terrorists now sit around the same peace table with those who thought (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Have you hugged a terrorist today? (was: A Measured Response...) —Scott Arthur
    "Amy Hughes" <lugnews@amyhughes.org> wrote in message news:GJotMs.A8t@lugnet.com... (...) than we (...) love- (...) strike a (...) If it meant that what happened on Tuesday would never happen again - would it not be worth it? (...) Islam. ...and 4) (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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