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The Law Law, as we know it, cannot govern free people, but must transform them into "law-abiding citizens," obliged to yield judgment to the supremacist authority of the law. I mean no insult to ethical lawyers or honest judges. Ideally, the law would step in when reason fails: the law settles disputes with force. In the process, the law preempts the right of the law abiding to react in self-defense. The law presumes to solve conflicts with authority separated from reason and judgment, and takes pride in this; it discourages our reliance on reason or personal responsibility. In a courtroom, the show of reason is gossamer: legal proceedings appear reasonable, but hearings and trials merely determine how to apply the law, and the law decides guilt or innocence, punishment or acquittal. Law may serve justice incidentally if administered well, but the primary concern of the law must remain its own "reason for being:" law may perpetrate injustice for the sake of self-preservation, and acquit the guilty or condemn the innocent for the sake of set precedent. Above all else, the law assures its own authority. (Read the rest here)
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Die For? Americans traveling to England always observe more similarities to our country than differences. I've been here only a short time, but I've noticed that the tradition of free speech -- exercised with enthusiasm -- (laughter) -- is alive and well here in London. We have that at home, too. They now have that right in Baghdad, as well. (Applause.) -President Bush, London, England, November 19, 2003 American soldiers handcuffed and firmly wrapped masking tape around an Iraqi man's mouth as they arrested him today for speaking out against occupation troops. ... Asked why the man had been arrested and put into the back of a Humvee vehicle on Tahrir Square, the commanding officer told Reuters at the scene: "This man has been detained for making anti-coalition statements." ... He refused to say what the man said. US troops arrest Iraqi for criticising them, New Zealand Herald, Wednesday November 12, 2003 . (Read the rest here)
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