Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Terror
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:12:36 -0400

Jeffrey, I hope you did not draw that as your conclusion of what I said,
because it is not what I said, and certainly not what I meant.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jeffery
> Smith
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:11 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Terror
>
>
> It is always easy to say "the ends justify the means". I don't subscribe
> to that. Terrorists do.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Austin
> Franklin
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:21 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Terror
>
>
> How can you say that?  Were you there, know what people were feeling,
> and what the thought process was?  I really am not qualified to second
> guess them.  It is certainly easier to condemn something that happened
> over 50 years ago, when there is no emotion, as well as no first hand
> involvement.
>
> I am NOT saying the "act" was right or just, just that I understand how
> it could have been done at the time.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > It isn't hard to second guess that [Japanese imprisonment by America
> > after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor] at all.
>
>