::To:Mark From:Dave Subject:carry extra ammo? -Turiyan is always right.
06-13-96  11:45
 -> > I can sympathize with your plight, but what would you have the
 -> police > do when a woman simply claimed that she was being or felt
 -> threatened?
 -> Unless the police have some kind of evidence that harm was done, the
 -> most they can do is tell the threatener to go away, and make a report
 ML> There's always the possibility of an unscrupulous woman using this as
 ML> clout for blackmail or revenge when no violence was ever intended or
 ML> done.
Its called RAPO.
 ML> I certainly believe we need to protect defenseless women, but I do
 ML> have a problem with prosecuting a person for what another person THINKS
 ML> that person might or could do.  We should swiftly and severely punish
Happens all the time my friend.  Besides, I think I saw that on 60
minutes.  So it has to be true.
... "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness." Sun Tzu
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