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Re: The Blameless Society

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From: Reason
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 04:39
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Lucien Saumur wrote in message <3AAC407A.BDB1EA34@sympatico.ca>...
>We will be helpless in the face of judicial atrocities as long as we fail
to
>recognize the relativity and subjectivity of criminality. When we have done
so,
>we may then understand that absolutely no one is immune from criminal
>responsibility for one's actions, particularly in the eyes of one's
victims.
>Thus the decision of a judge or of a jury, in the exercise of his or their
>functions, may be viewed as criminal if it victimizes someone.
>
Liberal judges, appointed by Liberal governments, overwhelmed with sympathy
for the poor soul in front of them.  Maybe a generous helping of milk of
human kindness will help... Maybe that will make the next few months in jail
a bit more bearable. Those awful turkey dinners, that nasty roast beef, and
those tiny 26 inch TV screens.

Never mind about the victims of his crimes... their suffering is not
relevant. This is the only victim... society is to blame.


>In a free society, the role of the state (and of its agents) is to enforce
>contractual obligations. It is not to revise these obligations without the
>consent of all the parties concerned. Nor is it to create and impose
contractual
>obligations which never existed and to which all parties had not agreed.
Any
>state official (judge or jury) who does so may be accused of having
committed a
>crime.
>http://www3.sympatico.ca/lsaumur/
>
>"G. B." wrote:
>
>> Personal Responsibility
>>
>> Let's see if I understand the state of personal responsibility in society
in
>> the last 20 years.
>>
>> If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap
>> while driving, the restaurant is to blame.
>>
>> If you suck three packs of cigarette smoke into your lungs each day for
40
>> years and die of lung cancer, the tobacco company is to blame.
>>
>> If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you blame the
school
>> for poor sex education.
>>
>> If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, the
bartender
>> is to blame.
>>
>> If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot heroin was
>> dirty, the government is to blame for not providing clean ones.
>>
>> And, if your friend is shot by an angry neighbor, you blame the gun
>> manufacturer.
>>
>> And, if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the
pilots
>> at 35,000 feet, and the passengers injure him instead, the airline owes
him
>> a few million.
>>
>> If you choose a life of crime and finally get caught, it's not your
fault,
>> let us pay your rent, feed you, give you a law degree, and on weekends
you
>> can stay in a communal visits cottage with your honey. Don't worry about
>> those 5 sentences, you'll serve them all at once, and you'll be out in 3
>> months.
>>
>> If you don't like facing your problems, here's some Prozac, that will fix
>> the world around you.
>>
>> Actually, nothing is your fault, it was either your parents, your
teachers
>> or some rich, evil company that made you what you are.
>> --
>> GB
>>
>> _____________________________________________________________
>> Where are we going? And what's with this hand  basket?  -George Carlin
>
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