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shani:
the answer to that question is self-evident. there is no complexity introduced by the story. there is nothing interesting about it on this score.
but there is interesting stuff raised by the story--just not by way of the question.
the debate has unfolded around these questions--and not in the main around the question itself.
the debate as i see it is about whether greenpeace has the right to protest at all. i dont think you or several others who have posted here believe that greenpeace has any such right. the usage of the piracy law indicates as much. if you consider the boarding of the ship to be an act of piracy, then you oppose the right of greenpeace to undertake political actions of this kind at all. you do this when you eliminate the self-evident differences in intent between a political action and piracy. (this last bit refers to your post above among others, but my argument is not directed primarily at you.)
i'd just prefer that folk say it outright.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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