Posted on 01/09/2012 10:54:07 AM PST by djf
Hey, I thought OWS was trying to become everybody’s lover whether anyone wanted them to or not.
Ad rem not ad hominem.
Citizens practice medicine everyday without state license. On themselves and on others. Generally we seek out those of demonstrable expertise and established practice, it only happens that in our time such expert practitioners are nearly always compelled by the state to get licenses and certifications from state bureaucrats for a fee. Whether or not there were licenses and a state to compel them upon folks, there would still be expert doctors!
So too it is with architects. But with rocket scientists you have lost me. As a rocket scientist of sorts, among many other skills I have learned and used, I wonder why you seem to suggest we must be licensed?
Citizen MD, in re Constitutional Conservatism, please see these comments and those preceding and following.
It is rare to find a convicted criminal who spends his time so wisely, for this essay is very powerful, well developed in theme and well researched. It is a boon to America that we have such citizens willing to go well out of the way of the commons of currency in thought in pursuit of the Truth.
I was/am interested in it in large part because of the idea of private prosecutions. I had argued on other threads that ANYONE could prosecute someone for a crime, as long as they follow the rules of the court, and I was roundly smeared and scorned for even imagining such an idea, even though I knew it had happened in the past.
It’s not totally “people” who make up a court case, if the proper papers are filed with the court, the court MUST take notice. The court IS NOT the private tool/property of the public prosecutors.
Yes, a citizen should be able to enter a compliant with a court of standing or to a grand jury, also of standing, in the case.
I was impressed by Mr. Roots argument that the modern police forces have become like the “standing army” our Founders rejected, and only came to accept reluctantly, for the purpose of national defense both externally against enemy nations and pirates, and internally against the native tribes and insurrections.
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