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To: Lane3 who wrote (23900)	7/13/2006 7:55:19 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541284

Why do we need to charge the prisoners with something, and try them? Um, because the alternative is keeping people locked up for the rest of their lives, without any finding that they did anything wrong at all? Just on the basis (for many of them) of the denunciation of some neighbor who said they were bad guys for who knows what reason? Revenge, getting access to their property, getting access to their wives and daughters, lunacy? All of which are well documented motivations for denouncing people to tribunals, I could mention the Nazis but let's stick with the French Revolution or maybe the Russians, etc., etc., etc. Ratting out your neighbor is a very old tradition. So is telling lies about your enemy. Locking up people forever without a trial on the basis of hearsay is contrary to the tenets of a society ordered on the principles of civil liberty. I can't actually think of anything worse the state can do. On a par with slavery and raping children. The state has all the power, the victim has none, and nobody to stand up for them.