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Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 2:24pmSanction this postReply
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Not only that, but criminal law here is run under the presumption of innocence, and the setting and posting of bond.  Presumption of innocence is what's so corrupt and blasphemous about this.  

Instead of looking "fair, we look like weak flower peddling fools to the rest of the world.

 



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Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 2:37pmSanction this postReply
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I won't post his best lines, you should read them in his article:

Mark Steyn:

For two weeks, the government of the United States has made itself a global laughingstock. Don't worry, "the system worked," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Incompetano. Don't worry, he was an "isolated extremist," said the president. Don't worry, we're banning bathroom breaks for the last hour of the flight, said the TSA. Don't worry, "U.S. border security officials" told the Los Angeles Times, we knew he was on the plane, and we "had decided to question him when he landed." Don't worry, Obama's counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, assured the Sunday talk shows, sure, we read him his rights, and he's lawyered up but he'll soon see that "there is advantage to talking to us in terms of plea agreements."

Oh, that's grand. Try to kill hundreds of people in an act of war, and it's the starting point for a plea deal. In his Cairo speech, the president bragged that the United States would "punish" those in America who would "deny" the "right of women and girls to wear the hijab." If he's so keen on it, maybe he should consider putting the entire federal government into full-body burkas and zipping up the eye slit so that, henceforth, every public utterance by John Brennan will be entirely inaudible. Americans should be ashamed by this all-fools' fortnigh

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 3:39amSanction this postReply
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You stupefied me, there, for many long minutes.

"Presumption of innocence is what's so corrupt and blasphemous about this"? What is "corrupt" about a case having to be proved, to a jury's or judge's satisfaction, before one is sentenced?

If you're wanting to dispense with due process of law entirely, be consistent about it. Do so for all of us, by somehow getting the Fourth through Eighth Amendments abolished, and changing us openly and admittedly into a dictatorship.

And who or what is being "blasphemed"? Of all the concepts I don't expect to see being defended in an Objectivist forum, the irrational religionist nonsense on stilts of "blasphemy" is near the top of the list.

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:23amSanction this postReply
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Steve, are you saying that the constitutional power of the congress to determine jurisdiction of such things as trial of the gitmo detainees and its laws setting up military tribunals don't count as laws?

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