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To: butterdezillion
We need to make it INEVITABLE that he faces prosecution.

Agreed, constitutionally, how?

73 posted on 10/31/2012 12:09:51 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone

I think we have to put pressure on our elected officials.

The T word is starting to make the rounds in some media circles already...


81 posted on 10/31/2012 12:12:27 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: xone

By applying pressure to law enforcement. Maybe by working hard to empanel a grand jury (though I have no idea how that works, and from what I’ve been told it goes through politicians so it’s nearly hopeless unless you can apply so much pressure that even a politician would respond).

The only other legal option for us in this regard is passing laws that enable grand juries or prosecutions without politicians as gate-keepers - which is what I thought. I don’t know anything more about how that would work.

If a person caught him in the act they could make a citizen’s arrest, if I understand correctly. But that doesn’t work on crimes already committed.


109 posted on 10/31/2012 12:36:13 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: xone

By applying pressure to law enforcement. Maybe by working hard to empanel a grand jury (though I have no idea how that works, and from what I’ve been told it goes through politicians so it’s nearly hopeless unless you can apply so much pressure that even a politician would respond).

The only other legal option for us in this regard is passing laws that enable grand juries or prosecutions without politicians as gate-keepers - which is what I thought grand juries or citizen’s juries were for. I don’t know anything more about how that would work.

If a person caught him in the act they could make a citizen’s arrest, if I understand correctly. But that doesn’t work on crimes already committed.


111 posted on 10/31/2012 12:36:56 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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