Truthers getting bad press yesterday. Not that I think Biden was in on 9-11, he’s only a delusional minion of the Demiurge

I know it’s none of my business Big Chief, but Radley used two sentences there. That makes it okay. Unless you want to ding him for the second actually being a sentence fragment by beginning with “But,” a grammatical no-no. So then we’d have to edit it back to one sentence, in which case you’re right.

/douche

All opinions are equal. But some are more equal than others.

That is in significant measure true, but a good judge must recognize that issues of empathy and such are supposed to be handled by legislatures, executives, and JURIES. There is sometimes a legitimate need for empathy in the courtroom, but it should be juries–not judges–who invoke it. Unfortunately, judges seem to do all they can to strip juries of their essential functions.

Dude. Seriously. Anyone with Zappa in their name will never get the down arrow from me. Lifetime pass.

Unfortunately, most of the people who call themselves “law and order” nowadays are in reality totalitarian anarchists. A crook with a badge can do a lot more damage to society than a crook without one; anyone who actually favors law and order must favor the aggressive prosecution of criminals with badges, but I almost never hear the so-called “law-and-order” types advocating that.

If the facts of the case are as they appear to be, many of the government agents involved in the Ryan Frederick invasion committed felony murder, and should be aggressively prosecuted for it. Prosecuting such agents would send a clear message that cops who break into people’s houses in patently unreasonable fashion do so without legal authority, and as such are burglars and/or robbers. If someone gets killed during their crime, they are murderers.

While it is true that overreaching cops do sometimes catch other criminals, the harm done by the overreaching cops far exceeds the harm done by the few criminals who wouldn’t have been caught via other means.

There is no such thing as an objective justice. Justices are humans and as such have their own idiosyncratic and subjective opinions about everything. Further, the job of a justice is to interpret the meanings of words that have no objective meaning. Thus, all justices are subjective. This is covered very well in John Hasnas’ “The Myth of the Rule of Law.”

The question then becomes not “fair, objective” justice vs. “biased, subjective” justice, but rather statist justice vs. individualist justice.

Gee, I wonder which will prevail.

I think you nailed it a few days ago: it’s irrelevant whether Sotomayor is a racist, a sexist, or a judicial activist, when the most dangerous part is that she’s a statist.

I rarely disagree with you, Radley, but no, no this will not be interesting. Spoiler alert: no one will care – at least not from the left establishment. Let’s just hope she’s decent on executive power.

Dear FBI…that is “ZAPPACRAPPA” Z-A-P-P-A-C-R-A-P-P-A….no need to make a new file…just add to the one you already have…

Have I mentioned that I do a little happy dance everytime someone in law enforcement bites it “in the line of duty”????? Seriously….I do. I root for Bonnie and Clyde at this point : )

Let the negative karma begin!!!! LOL

But, even if defendants had enough money (after government seizures) to support a lobby, don’t expect he name of the cabinet post to reflect the job it does. For example the Department of Justice, should really be called the Department of Prosecution. A real justice department that protects people’s rights would be called the Department of Defense which is taken. But really the Department of Defense should be called the Department of Invasion. You can see how this just continues to deteriorate the further you go with it…

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Is there really any difference between law enforcement and the enforcers of the Mafia?

The mafia won’t kidnap you after breaking a few bones to prove they’re on the side of justice.

*I don’t wish to rewrite but technically I am sure Biden has some reason for saying it. It is just that, given his record, it is completely possible that no one has said anything to Biden that a rational person would use to justify his statement.

Both parties are responding to a public that WANTS a low level police state.

We’ve allowed ourselves to become so frightened by what our neighbors might be doing that we have handed our freedom to an institution that cannot become anything other than corrupt.

All these pricks that are shooting dogs and other bad things would likely be big hits at your BBQ–really nice guys–but put them in a culture of the police force with no oversight and you get..well what we have.