From: Randall Parker 

In article ,
blucy{at}mediaone.net says...
> > Somewhere in all this a larger principle was lost: Is the system rotten?
>
> Is that really the larger principle? IMO, it takes very few people to expose
> the problems of a methodology, but that does not make the methodology wrong.
I
> don't have a problem with police asking questions which adhere to a line.
Once
> that line is crossed, *then* I have a problem. The line is pretty well
defined,
> IMO.

My "larger principle" point is that one can't judge an entire
system by the abuses of some individuals. There are too many people with
too many motivations. A person who wants to condemn a particular system can
always find abuses of power. Political systems are made up of people after
all.

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