Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You do not live in the US of A? All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@shaw.ca> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag > My only comment on this wildly OT thread: > > We had a local situation where children were being abducted and raped. > As the children were not being murdered as well, they was a hazy > description of perpetrator. Naturally everyone including the police > were outraged. Supposedly a police officer said they did not care what > condition the perpetrator might be in when he was turned over to the > police. A pair of earnest citizens captured a man matching the > description and over the course of an afternoon mercilessly beat and > tortured him. During a break in the proceedings the "perpetrator" > escaped by crawling out of a second story window. He was hospitalized > for a long long time, will never walk again and has severe brain > damage. It also turned out that they had the wrong man. The right man > was arrested after some good old fashion police leg work. > > It is easy to invent imaginary situations where the outrage builds to > seemingly justify outrageous acts. However real life is often not so > simplistic and straight forward. Though I have never been arrested or > detained, I am grateful that I live in a society where abuse and > torture are not encouraged. > > John Collier > > > On May 26, 2004, at 6:10 AM, Philip Kokoczka wrote: > > > What would you do? > > A group of criminals have kidnapped your wife and daughter. They are > > known for gang raping, torturing and killing their captives. You > > happen to find and capture a couple of them. They know where your wife > > and daughter are being held, and have told you that they have only a > > short time left before the raping, torturing and killing begin. What > > do you do to get the information where your wife and daughter are > > being held? If you just ask them nicely to tell you where they are > > being held do you think they would tell you? What length would you go > > to in order to get them to tell you the location at which your wife > > and daughter are being held? > > snip > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information