Re: [ga] Companion Dispute Proposal to WLS Service

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

         Lighten up, everyone.  Marc was joking.  *John* was joking when he 
started this thread.

Jon Weinberg
weinberg@msen.com



At 10:50 AM 6/7/2002 -0700, Sandy Harris wrote:
>Marc Schneiders wrote:
>
> > > In most countries, you are innocent unless proven guilty. What you 
> propose
> > > is to decide that somebody is guilty even before committing the action.
> >
> > Terrorism, piracy, above all the latter, need to be tackled _before_ the
> > vile acts are committed. We cannot allow any chances, that a trademark
> > actually gets hurt.
>
>I hope you were joking or being sarcastic in writing that. If not,
>methinks you're insane.
>
>A murderer or child molester is treated as innocent until proven guilty
>in
>many countries, and has some right to due process almost anywhere. You
>appear to be claiming that "piracy" against trademark right is so
>heinous
>a crime that it demands special measures, more severe than those against
>murder or child molestation. This is utterly ludicrous.
>
>You might make that case for terrorism. It is at least arguable that,
>against such enemies, even democratic nations should go outside their
>normal legal principles and resort to arrest without habeas corpus, or
>even to assasination. I'm unconvinced, but there are certainly some
>strong arguments for that position.
>
>But "terrorism, piracy, above all the latter ...". Even without "above
>all", this would be lunacy. With it, it is utterly unbeleivable.
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