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Old 12-17-2014, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Zeke View Post
No.

1. It's ugly.
2. Lawful at the time.

What I wanted -- which we got -- is an admission that we did it, haven't in years, and won't do so again (which, of course, we could and we'd never hear about it but you know what I mean).

Retroactive prosecution due to current malem prohibitum is crap: it needed to be illegal, then.
It was, both in terms of our own laws and an international treaty we were signatories to.
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