From: Adam Flinton 

Mark Hessey wrote:

> "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote: Well you sure
> did, but I'm not going to spoil the fun. Read back what you said...
>
> As in "give him a fair trial, then hang him?" Of course that can be an
> element of any system, this kind of stuff is disturbing, for instance:
> Injustice by Default http://www.reason.com/0402/fe.mw.injustice.shtml but is
> still a far cry from this kind of stuff:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10791-2004Feb3.html that
> simply reinforces my position on getting rid of Kim Jong il sooner than
> later.
>
>

Yeah but if you get to set the crime you can give just about anyone a
"fair trial" & hang em.

You then get into the much more tricky area of deciding (on behalf of
others) what should & shouldn't be a crime (e.g. insulting the
president or publishing information likely to denigrate the gov etc.)

Adam

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