Arms Dealers

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_DaniteDan
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Arms Dealers

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I read this article. I had a lot of thoughts about if this guy should be sent to the United States for trial.

http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnew ... -pressure/

I mean suppose a small country passed a law that said those who engage in producing any firearms violate their law. Suppose they bring charges against the President of Colt. They hire a private group to go in to the United States secretly and grab him and bring him back to their country for trial. Are they right?

I'm reading a lot of Frederick Forsythe's books now and ones that he recommends. It's a bizarre world out their. Money talks. Money influences politics. Say for example Colt was laying off workers because this guy bought ten thousand ak-47's for ten dollars a piece and was selling them at fifty dollars to the highest bidder. He also builds a small ammo plant which employs people in Russia. He is a good person in Russia.

Mrs. Molly Jones worked for a major chemical company for forty years. The company produces napalm. She doesn't go to another country and spray people with napalm but just helps put it together. Is she a bad person.

what may be right in one circumstance is wrong in another. If so, where is truth?
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"

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Re: Arms Dealers

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Remember that the freedom you enjoy is brought to you by many who carried M1's, BAR's and dropped bombs. "Peace" is fragile and only exists at the end of a bayonet or rifle barrel.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
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