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  •  Oh, I don't blame the whole court, (1+ / 0-)

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    I don't even blame the conservatives all of the time, because sometimes they actually do what is right.  The court is a complex thing and a very important part of our governing system, but some of them do piss me off a lot.  

    Nice picture of the code of Hammurabi.

    if (Kos) doesn't like what goes on here, he can start his own damn website! - Major Danby

    by Green Zombie on Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 07:27:27 AM PDT

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    •  I blame the legal system (1+ / 0-)

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      goverup1

      as created by academia, law schools, politicians, and the apathy of the American People.

      Thousands of years ago people learned it was better to decide things on the basis of a written law that applied to everyone rather than the law as decreed by the spoken word of the king.

      The absolute power of the law needs to be tempered by wisdom in order to bring forth justice, but by making the written law something subject to interpertation by lawyers and judges the courts went halfway back to recognizing the divine rights of kings in the bronze age.

      By giving preference to police officiers, prosecuters and witnesses for the government in evaluating testimony and allowing plea bargins rather than actuallyu setteling cases on the merits we threw justice out the window.

      Live Free or Die --- Investigate, Impeach, Incarcerate

      by rktect on Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 08:13:30 AM PDT

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