🚀 go-pugleaf

John M Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Thus Spake russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto):
> 
> %In article <3370b035.21448595@news.gmu.edu>,
> %John M Atkinson <jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu> wrote:
> %}Thus Spake klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>:
> %
> %}%Yes. You nip it in the bud. First time every time.
> %}
> %}Yes-but nipping it in the bud is best done through the press, the courts, and
> %}the legislature.  Not through armed revolt.
> %
> %The mainstrean press supported the attack on the Davidians, delivering the
> %government line.  The courts railroaded them -- the judge used charges
> %the Davidians were not convicted of in order to bump up the sentences
> %to 30 and 40 years (without parole) on the charges they were convicted
> %of.   This practice has since been approved by the Supreme Court.
> %Furthermore, they were convicted on charges of using a firearm to
> %further a conspiracy when they were acquitted on the conspiracy
> %charges.  The legislature also supported the attack on and burning of
> %the Davidians.
> 
> So you're saying there was _no_ response to the public outcry over mistakes that
> were made?  You're wearing blinkers.  If you feel that one instance is
> justification to try to revolt, my suggestion stands.  Shoot yourself in the
> head and save the local cops the trouble.

You gotta get a new credo. Go ahead, bother to use your mind in
contravention of orders. I really don't care if you say the same thing,
so long as you don't use Party phrasing to say it.

Mr Russotto - got any pointers to verifiable netinfo regarding
conviction on a charge which required a prior conviction to stand? If
you can verify this information, there must be a case for outrage here.
Seems to me that if a conviciton is dependent on a conviction which was
nullpros or found invalid, the secondary conviction must necessarily
also ve null and void. That may not be cause for an armed revolt but
it's damned sure cause for an impeachment of the judges and an
asswhuppin' for anyone that doesn't vote for impeachment.

> 
> John M. Atkinson
> jatkinso@gmu.edu
> "A nation which despises its soldiers will all too soon
> have a despicable army
>                  --Jerry Pournelle

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