[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Quote of the Day by solzhenitsyn

[marktwain]

Roberts is right on here. No one is safe anymore, and no one can be sure they are obeying the law. Under this "system" everyone has committed some crime that the prosecutor can "get" you for.

[agitator]

"The justice system has become a lottery"

The justice system has become the Theater Of The Absurd and nobody cares. In fact if you explain why, people will drag out their favorite pet peeve and goad on the process.

[Cold Heat]

Conservatives are not alarmed by these developments.

We sure as heck are! At least this one is.

State legislators in particular come up with more baloney than Oscar Meyer.

All accidents are criminalized. Everytime your kid gets a boo-boo you become a child abuse investigation.

The world has gone nuts! They are giving tickets for not having your lights on when it rains!

No seat belts? Gimmee some money!

Wait till you have a bad day and get multiple violations of some bs laws that had nothing to do with anything but someones ability to do it to you, because they can.

Alaska is looking better all the time.

[tpaine]

We have "a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints":


          "In its discussion of the scope of "liberty" protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment the Court stated:

Neither the Bill of Rights nor the specific practices of the States at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment marks the outer limits of the substantive sphere of liberty which the Fourteenth Amendment protects.
See U.S. Const., Amend. 9.

As the second Justice Harlan recognized:

     "[T]he full scope of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause `cannot be found in or limited by the precise terms of the specific guarantees elsewhere provided in the Constitution.
This `liberty´ is not a series of isolated points pricked out in terms of the taking of property;
the freedom of speech, press, and religion;
the right to keep and bear arms;
the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures;
and so on. 
It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints, . . . and which also recognizes, what a reasonable and sensitive judgment must, that certain interests require particularly careful scrutiny of the state needs asserted to justify their abridgment."

Poe v. Ullman, supra, 367 U.S. at 543, 81 S.Ct., at 1777

[Porterville]

Here's a hint, don't do illegal stuff.

[zeugma]

Congratulations JH2! It only took 6 posts to prove you right. There is a rather large percentage of this forum that will cheer the process on while attacking anyone who disagrees as a 'liberal', 'democrat', 'druggie', or 'soft on crime'. I think it is seriously time to fear for the future of the republic when even those who supposedly support a more 'strict' interpretation of the Constitution are willing to support any edict because "it's the law".

[MEGoody]

"Accidents and civil offenses have been criminalized"

I kept reading, hoping to find examples of what the author meant by this. Didn't find any.

[Tailgunner Joe]

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