Публика на SlashDot обсуждает (
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/24/2221203) старые Star Wars - в частности вопрос, хорошо ли было взрывать Звезду Смерти, в смысле - что там же могли быть всякие гражданские личности.
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Re:The logistics of building the Death Star (Score:4, Insightful)
by Trurl's Machine (651488) on Saturday September 25, @09:28AM (#10347956)
> Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials.
Even that is not true - we know that Death Star had lots of prison cells (we know that there are more cell blocks than just the one where Lea is kept. It's safe to assume that on Death Star there were at least dozens (if not hundreds) of prisoners of the Empire. Now, some of them could be also evil, like drunken stormtroopers or a lousy TIE-fighter pilot who scratched paint on Vader's machine while parking, but many of them were probably genuine freedom fighters - the prisoners from blocade runner, for example.
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Re:The logistics of building the Death Star (Score:5, Funny)
by Sique (173459) on Saturday September 25, @09:51AM (#10348055)
It's terrorist, man. They don't wear uniforms, they are not commanded by a government, they are not for open battle, but doing stealth attacks... So they are terrorists, and any support to them is punishable by the PATRIOT act.
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Re:The logistics of building the Death Star (Score:5, Funny)
by henrik (98) on Saturday September 25, @11:59AM (#10348726)
I believe the more recent term for them would be "illegal combatants". Terrorists have rights to legal hearing and legal help, the former does not.