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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 --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 379/45 1 633/267 |
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