NP FWD: Keyser Soze would know what to do

[Henry Mu]

We're already looking at overt domestic legal changes that will push and
probably overstep constitutional proscriptions. Don't imagine for a
minute that all of those victories that we'll never hear about
(mentioned in Bushbaby's address on AoA) will be legal/constitutional. 

Much has been made concerning our (the USA's) uncovery of the names
behind the aliases of the hijackers; gee, what are we gonna do with
those names...?

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₪ Henry 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Paul Mackin
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 5:16 PM
 
Unfortunately in a society of laws the "Usual Suspects" formula, without
extensive crippling modification, would run into a slew of constitutonal
problems. Don't quite know which amendment they would thow in your path
to strike down a conviction for a felony (punishable by death no less)
based on the circumstance of family relationship but feel in my gut the
bastards would find one. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Mu" <scuffling at hotmail.com>
To: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: NP FWD: Keyser Soze would know what to do


> If you saw "Usual Suspects," then you know that Keyser Soze is a
> legendary badass, e.g. "And then he showed these men of will what will
> really is." When Soze's family is brutalized, he kills them, their
> attackers (all except one) and then seeks out and kills the attacker's
> families and friends.
>
> Everybody is wondering about the new suicide terrorist profile that
> includes older, educated men with families; how can they do it? We
need
> to make sure that their families aren't benefiting, that "life
> insurance" benefits aren't being paid by terrorist organizations to
> their families. If that doesn't work; take out the friends and
families
> of the hijackers. If that doesn't work, take out the people that
helped
> the hijackers and THEIR families and friends. Not many would-be
> terrorists would have the stomach to do what they do if they knew that
> there would be dire consequences for their immediate families rather
> than just a general war against the country that harbors the
> organization that trained them.
>
> Harsh? Terrible? Absolutely! But I hope that this is our plan; history
> and finger-pointing aside, there would be less loss on both sides than
> any alternative plan that I can think of. What do you think?