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To: Jeff Head
Otherwise you end up with anarchy...and anarchy is almost always followed by something much worse.

Right, and a petition to have someone arrested is...what? Pretty much mobocracy in action. That said, it's hardly surprising in California, where government by petition seems to have more or less obviated (small-r) republican government.

[...]the arrest should occur based on his actions but the pols do not have the cajones to simply do what is right.

Cojones. "Cajones" translates to "drawers" (as one would find in a bureau). Sorry, but it's an error that drives me, uh, nuts.

Snidely

204 posted on 02/22/2004 9:51:09 AM PST by Snidely Whiplash
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To: Snidely Whiplash
A petition to the government for redress, in this case having the attorney general fulfill his oath of office, is not anarchy or mobocracy. It is in fact far from it and is a provision in the Bill of Rightsd in the U.S. Constitution...and I believe a similar provision exists in the Califgornia constitution. It would not reach the level of mobocracy until the people petitioning took the law into their own hands and threw the individual into a dungeon of their own making, or worse.

But clearly, asking that their duly elected officials fulfill the duty of their office does not come close to that level.

As to the mispell of the Spanish...entirely my bad.

207 posted on 02/22/2004 11:29:07 AM PST by Jeff Head
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