[lentulusgracchus]

So if enough people sign a petition, anyone can be arrested based on popular opinion, I guess.

That's like the Athenian custom of ostracism, involuntary exile. They did it to Miltiades and Aristeides the Just, among others. They just didn't execute ostracized people.

[Da Coyote]

That’s like the Athenian custom of ostracism, involuntary exile. They did it to Miltiades and Aristeides the Just, among others. They just didn’t execute ostracized people.

The people of Athens had intelligence.

Our president and Holder do not.