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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (49002)	6/20/2006 1:11:24 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 90947

Bill, I cannot responsibly allow myself as competent to judge and to testify to a murder I witnessed with the hope that appropriate authorities believe me and execute the murder as per my testimony unless I allow the same to you and all the millions of other people in North America to have their eyewitness testimony taken as given. Obviously such a thing would produce thousands of murders by proxy as enemies evened up scores and wiped out gangs and competitors...and what not. Obviously, you and I could witness the same or separate murders and be reasonably sure of who did it. But what if we were liars or criminals ourselves...or merely incompetent to judge? It all goes back to my belief that both competence and integrity are imperfect qualities in many of us. I don't want my life ended because of either the ignorance or the malice of one or more people. I understand your desire to see the beasts get their comeuppance. But just as murderers are capable of murder...other people are also capable of machinations. Certainly, I was unbothered, for instance, when Dahmler got murdered in prison. Sometimes our murderers get some justice done. There is often a primitive justice that goes on among the common people who have a rather direct awareness of rapists and suchlike... I just wish the State to be above that. In some countries the State becomes the biggest murderer...even though they call them "executions", too. Often those executed are called "enemies of the State." I think in your country it might relate to the right to bear arms... But I must now run to UPS to see what they have for me...