From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 20:31:46 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
>>I say, go ahead and use the evidence to prosecute the criminal
>>and then also prosecute the person who illegally gathered the
>>evidence. One crime shouldn't absolve another crime.
>>
>
> Some modern countries, notably the U.S., desperately need
> to reinvigorate a public perception that crime does not pay
> and that it is *very* important to society that wrongdoers
> are caught and punished (technicalities be damned).
> > And just so that the previous sentence won't be misinterpreted,
> I'm saying that the public's perception of crime and the
> likelihood of punishment is important too.
>
> Lee Corbin
>
Protecting you and I from the State rummaging through our
property and removing any and all privacy whenever the bloody
well feel like it is NOT a "technicality"!
Punishment is not the only or most important thing either. It
is certainly not more important than the very freedom to live
our lives in peace and security that we cherish. Criminals are
not the only jeopardy to our security. Government intrusion is
a larger jeopardy and much more difficult to defend against.
For real crime (not breaking braindead laws that should never
have been passed) finding the causes of criminal behavior and
removing whichever ones are reasonably fixable is every bit as
important as punishment. So why are we focusing on surety of
punishment being such a good as to ignore "technicalities"?
- samantha
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