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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (215444)	1/7/2002 1:55:08 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Torture should only be used on people we don't like anyways..... <g>

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (215444)	1/7/2002 2:05:14 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from it's original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government." President Harry Truman * * *

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (215444)	1/7/2002 8:03:37 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Lazarus, I don't much care what happens to criminals... or people in prison. I would vaguely expect them to have some minimum protections under our Constitution, but it is not a subject that interests me. The "What if an innocent person ...." kind of questions don't excite me either. I believe it is an extremely rare event for an innocent ("I was just standing there minding my own business"), law-abiding kind of person to run afoul of the law. If they did, I think it would be extraordinarily rare that the mistake would not be rectified early in the judicial process. I don't believe that law enforcement in our country railroads innocent people for crimes they did not commit. I am highly skeptical of claims that there are people on death row who are innocent. And even if in extremely rare cases they are, the reason they ended up on death row is probably because they are criminals who were likely responsible for other, even worse crimes that were not found out. I want our streets to be safe, our wives and children to be protected, and I want law-breakers to be removed from society. I want our law enforcement agencies to be given all the tools necessary to accomplish that. I don't believe in "Miranda warnings," nor do I favor the right of a person to have an attorney present when they are questioned. I think any innocent person should have nothing to fear in answering questions asked by the police. Crimes are committed with every effort made to get away with them, and I am more interested in catching guilty parties than I am in providing legal shields for criminals. I could go on ... but you get the idea. Don't tell me I will be sorry someday when I am arrested, because I have not the slightest apprehension of that ever happening (unless I commit a crime, in which case I will deserve it). We probably both know already that we are never going to come to agreement on these issues, to put it mildly.