Geoff - no juveniles have been executed in Texas.  And the courts, including
the juries, have not found any offenders to be of such mental capacity that
they did not have a concept of the wrongness of their crime.  The world will
not end - get over it!

Stephen P. Austin


-----Original Message-----
From: geoff carver [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 3:52 AM
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Subject: the end of the world as we know it?


OK: the view from this side of the water: europeans seem to find it
significant
that all the apparent president-elect has seen of europe was part of rome's
airport during a stop-over - and  i figure it says a lot when my local paper
(in
dresden, in what used to be east germany) keeps a running account of texas
executions, noting as well which ones were of juveniles, mentally retarded,
etc.
-
        so: although it's too late to send international observors to
monitor
the fairness of elections in that banana-republic called florida, what does
this
mean for archaeology in the long run: are we going to see widespread gutting
of
hard-won protective legislation, "voluntary" compliance on the part of big
oil
and other industry, or... what? should we over here start thinking about
organising support for our sisters and brothers on the front lines of the
CRM
resistance movement?
        or will it all be business as usual?

geoff carver
http://home.t-online.de/home/gcarver/
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