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For those who only browse the headlines, the U.S. is charging two Americans with plotting to build a weapon to be used to inflict deadly radiation poisoning usi
by mpyne 13y ago
For those who only browse the headlines, the U.S. is charging two Americans with plotting to build a weapon to be used to inflict deadly radiation poisoning using X-ray.
The victims were to be Muslims and other "enemies of Israel and the U.S.".
One of the accused works as an industrial mechanic at General Electric, the other worked at the G.E. plant as a contractor.
- HarryHirsch 13y agoThe folks were patently cuckoo. If you believe that someone offering to assassinate a fellow through Voodoo ought to be prosecuted then so should these people. If you believe a case against a Voodoo assassin should be thrown out, this case ought to be thrown out.
- mpyne 13y agoWell as a nuclear-qualified submarine officer I can assure you that whatever else you think about Voodoo, radiation actually does exist
- HarryHirsch 13y agoSure, but their system of delivey is entirely unfit for purpose, and even the police agrees.
- mpyne 13y agoPerhaps, but I'm not sure why we'd give someone "extra credit" just because they were too stupid to sharpen their knife before they plunged it into their victim.
- HarryHirsch 13y agoThe law does consider outcome, not just intent, doesn't it? A contract killer who offers to kill his victims by voodoo would get a lesser sentenct that someone who offers to use a gun, and this somehow makes sense.
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