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 Posted: Sat Mar 26th, 2016 08:36 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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Mana: 
 "You are a tyrant imposing a death sentence on humanity." Case in point. The wording just quoted is offered as if the one offering, authoring, the message is offering a statement of fact. Rather than presumption of innocence, and rather than offering wording of suspicion of possible culpability in wrong doing, the wording is public condemnation of wronging stated as a fact. My reputation is ruined, as the mud was slung, and if it sticks on anyone's mind, then I am now a tyrant in their mind, having been convicted, without offering me any opportunity to defend myself, of this heinous crime against humanity. How does that work for anyone? The alternative has been known for centuries. The alternative has been called legem terrae, or the law of the land, or common law, or due process, or rule of law, and one principle known by mankind for centuries is the principle by which individual human beings are subject to individual human error, and therefore the idea of affording one juror the power to acquit works against the requirement of unanimity (of the whole country represented by 12 jurors) in order to convict. On the one hand is a despot with the power to punish on his or her say so alone, as he or she pleases, and on the other hand nothing is ever done to anyone without the whole country (or representatives of the whole country) agreeing upon the facts that determine guilt, the punishment if any is due, and the meaning of law in any case, in any time, and in any place. How does my offering of that information, well documented for thousands of years, constitute me being a tyrant? I don't get it. I can ask. How does that constitute me being a tyrant? Is that a false accusation. Is a a false accusation inspired out of ignorance? Is that a willfully false, deceptive, accusation done with malice aforethought? I don't know, so I ask.


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