Unrepentant, Mr. Paumer described the killings as a justifiable response to a totalitarian regime.
The operation was "not a justifiable response to a lethal attack by republican paramilitaries but instead soldiers opening fire unjustifiably," the report said.
That U.S. plan may not be sufficient for Palestinians, but to say that the justifiable response to it is suicide terrorism is utterly sick.
"There's no doubt the government has a policy challenge on its hands, but cruelty can never be a justifiable response.
Well, if you ever, ever thought that attacking a Jew was a justifiable response to your feelings about Israel, hear this: it is not, it is not, it is not.
"Even if the three arrested women did take part in the protest," Amnesty said on Thursday, "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities – the detention on the serious criminal charge of hooliganism – would not be a justifiable response to the peaceful – if, to many, offensive – expression of their political beliefs.
A man who identified himself as a spokesman for the North American Earth Liberation Front media office, in Portland, Ore., said in a phone interview today that such acts were a justifiable response to the "genetic engineering of our forests" that he said corporations were carrying out.
It speaks of unspecified "evidence" that Chinese companies are continuing to transfer key technologies related to missiles or weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to North Korea, despite China's efforts to settle the nuclear dispute.But how much of this American unease is a justifiable response to a genuine threat?
It coarsens our culture, and at its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response.
