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Old 08-20-2008
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Re: Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands

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Originally Posted by MattLarson View Post
Perhaps so, but the law as it reads right now makes what he did a criminal offense.
So do you think it was appropriate for the govt. to enforce the law in this particular case?

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Or like introducing something utterly irrelevant and off-topic like that into a thread like this?
Not off-topic--I was using the Starr prosecution as an analogy to illustrate the nature of the govt.'s reaction in this case, pointing out that they were similar.

Here, this might help. . .

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analogy




Main Entry: anal·o·gy
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈna-lə-jç\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural anal·o·gies
Date: 15th century
1: inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others
2 a: resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : similarity

analogy - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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