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Re:Better 10 guilty go free than 1 innocent suffer
There is no number set in stone.
There is — or ought to be — a threshold in everybody's mind. All societies try to avoid punishing the innocent, but different ones are willing to go to different lengths to do so. Ancient Romans, for example, had some legal mechanisms for citizens inside the City (and 1.5 miles outside of it), but any further an executive's power was absolute — it was deemed acceptable to occasionally have an innocent suffer the executive's injustice so as not to burden the executive's power. Modern developed societies are nearly opposite — the executive's power was just trimmed even over non-citizens captured (very) far away.
It is all about balancing the swiftness and efficiency of just prosecution against the dangers of punishing the innocent. And it all boils down to the original question (asked centuries ago): Is it better that ten guilty persons go free than that one innocent person be convicted?.
The answer today is almost universally "yes". But what if the stakes are different — not 10:1, but 100:1?..
The idea is to set up a system with enough checks and balances to ensure that no one is punished unless they're pretty damn sure
This is a meaningless answer. All of the "checks and balances" impede prosecution. We still need them exactly for the reasons you state: to protect against accidentally punishing an innocent. And every time someone like O.J. Simpson is acquitted, we start thinking, whether there are too many impediments to prosecution — and too many guilty ones end up free.
So, what's your threshold?
The biggest problem right now is [...]
Yada-yada, yackity-yack. I asked to avoid changing the subject to "what we are"... Can't resist?
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So did Chile
One of the more heinous human tragedies occured on September 11, 1973.
The democratically elected government of Chilean president Salvadore Allende was overthrown in a coup d'etat by General Augusto Pinochet. The new regime killed thousands of dissidents and other "enemies of the state".
The reason? Allende was a Marxist, and the CIA (and by extension, Richard Nixon) were keen to keep Latin America firmly in the American camp during the Cold War, even if installing fascist dictatorships was necessary.
I'm willing to bet anyone here that we'll attempt something similar in the Palestinian territory, so long as we can keep the Israelis from doing it themselves in some wickedly obvious fashion, like firing a rocket from a chopper, or hare-brained assassination attempts.
Of course, we're far more civilzed at home. We rely on factual information reported in an objective fashion to an educated public.
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Re:Ad hominem bullshitWhat about the editorials in America that said to kill Muslims in revenge for 9/11, or that editorial in Las Vegas that caused a big stir in the Muslim community when it openly advocated killing American Muslims in revenge for every beheading in Iraq. Have you been to any right-wing websites like freep or little green footballs? Some of their bloggers have said that America won't be safe until Muslim countries are nuked. And they're serious, going into long waxing detail over it.
How about when Ann Coulter wrote"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
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Trust the ones "questioning" F9/11?The "questions" raised by "Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11" include commentary by Anne Coulter & Zell Miller. Are we really supposed to take these two talking heads seriously?
Anne Coulter is the one who gave us things like "McCarthyism was a myth created by the liberals", compares Howard Dean to a war criminal, and "Liberals don't care about the environment."
Zell Miller is the Democrat who gave an angry keynote speech at the Republican Convention. (on a side note, these speeches are usually positive and lay out an agenda for the party- and are not angry rants). In his speech, Miller said that anyone who referred to our troops in Iraq as "occupiers" instead of "liberators" was an insult to our country and our armed forces. Perhaps Miller did not watch President Bush's prime time news conference earlier this year, when he referred several times to our action in Iraq as "occupation," and said something like "Of course I'd be unhappy if I was occupied too." After some hard questions from Chris Matthews on "Hardball," Miller said he would like to live in an era when he could challenge someone to a duel, and ended the interview (source)
So with all the insane things coming out of their mouths, I'm supposed to believe them over Moore? Not likely.
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Ann CoulterWhat a crazy bitch! Not even a drop of remorse for the sadistic prisoner abuse. No. Just "get on with it" rant against the newspapers. I guess the truth hurts too much so she'd now attacking the messenger.
Dammit. Now I feel dirty having visited her website.
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Re:What About Anne?
Whatever she is, she apparently is truly in love with herself.
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What About Anne?
Ann Coulter has her typical bitchy take on the whole situation.
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What is SlackWare?
Slackware is a commonly misunderstood linux distribution. Many feel it's communist. It's not at all. Is Linux and the open source community more "left leaning" yes but SlackWare people definetely are not. Below is a brief fact based historical overview of the leftist movement and how it relates to open source software : Torvold Linus Torvold, a soft headed finish lad first decided to write linux after reading about soviet farmers not being able to afford Windows operating system software. Some call him a traitor including Anne Coulter, personally I call him an enemy non-combatant. The Revolution After corrupting many many perfectly patriotic programmers into believing that software should be free and we should all share, Linus started really pouring on the heat. HE formed the aptly named Red Hat Software company to "spread the message". The truth is redhat has been investigated many times by the CIA and Microsoft for subversive activity. Nothing was ever proved but that was before 9/11. Now no real evidence is needed we only need to suspect subversion in order to act. The Rise of the SubCulture The subculture surronding this communist open source community reached a boiling point when crackpots from San Fransisco started making millions selling pea brain ideas to Wall Street. This was known as the dotcom boom (or bust?). Swanky communist headquarters started sprouting in every major city and propeller hat wearing storm troopers started taking over. Luckily market forces prevailed as they always do and now most of these treachorous baffoons are now unemployed. The future of the greatest nation has been restored.
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Re:Even for defence?
earmarking millions of dollars to support the development of that software.
Or possibly granting huge above-market purchasing contracts.
Er, wait. No it doesn't.
Hey, where's your double standard? You couldn't possibly believe that other nations have the same ecconomic rights that the US does, do you? That would be treason!
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Re:Limbaugh?
I dunno, she's a pretty attractive looking woman. On the other hand, I get the impression she's maybe not the easiest person to get along with.
I hate having a pseudo-crush on some woman who I'd probably find really annoying in real life. I guess it's back to fantasizing about Janeane Garofalo for me.
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Re:Limbaugh?
I dunno, she's a pretty attractive looking woman. On the other hand, I get the impression she's maybe not the easiest person to get along with.
I hate having a pseudo-crush on some woman who I'd probably find really annoying in real life. I guess it's back to fantasizing about Janeane Garofalo for me.
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Re:Limbaugh?
I dunno, she's a pretty attractive looking woman. On the other hand, I get the impression she's maybe not the easiest person to get along with.
I hate having a pseudo-crush on some woman who I'd probably find really annoying in real life. I guess it's back to fantasizing about Janeane Garofalo for me.
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Re:And brace yourself for a major bloom of astrotuAs for man-on-the-street interviews, "The Paper of Record" has one of these on perminant retainer: Greg Packer. For example,
Another average individual eager to get Hillary's book was Greg Packer, who was the centerpiece of the New York Times' "man on the street" interview about Hillary-mania. After being first in line for an autographed book at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble, Packer gushed to the Times: "I'm a big fan of Hillary and Bill's. I want to change her mind about running for president. I want to be part of her campaign."
It was easy for the Times to spell Packer's name right because he is apparently the entire media's designated "man on the street" for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans' Day Parade. He was quoted at not one â" but two â" New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new "Star Wars" movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games â" even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin's house in the Hamptons and the pope's visit to Giants stadium.
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Ann Coulter is damn sexy
How can this gorgeous woman be such a heartless right-wing bitch?
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Re:Salon killed themselves.
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Re:Salon killed themselves.
"A well spoken liberal thesis is interesting to read, but a lot of the crap they were slinging was along the lines of "conservatives are so stupid", something I'm not willing to pay for."
Yes, you're right... Only Conservatives are willing to pay for mindless crap such as calling all liberals stupid. -
Re:HDTV or DTV?
nobody cares about watching some crappy sitcom or the local news in high definition.
Well, besides me. But I would also LOVE to see Kiran Chetry and Ann Coulter in HD! -
Re:So what?
But nobody is preventing them from joining any major they like, no matter what it "looks" like.
As the real Ann Coulter says, just because it is counterintuitive does not make it right. -
Re:Yuck, Yuck, Yuck!
Are you the real Ann Coulter or am I just happy to see you?
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Re:I got hacked too, honestYou twirp! How dare you call her Ms. Coulter. Its Dr. Ann Coulter to you, Max Vlast. Dr. Coulter recieved her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School; which I doubt if any slashdot reader has a Doctorate. You can read more about Dr. Ann Coulter from her biography.
As to your question, I doubt that Dr. Coulter is the promiscuous type. She is a conservative and therefore she is Right. She would never gave premarital sex, unlike most leftists who can't recognize morals even if it smacked them upside the head.
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