RE: Justice - American style
January 6, 2015 at 10:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 11:40 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 6, 2015 at 10:38 pm)KUSA Wrote: I think you have a misrepresented view of how I feel. I agree with the latter part of your post wholeheartedly. Crooked politicians should be punished severely.
The only "point" that I made was a disagreement with the OP in regards to the bribery being worse than a home invasion coupled with an abduction.
There are few things worse than an interloper in my house.
I don't agree that I misrepresented your point, as I didn't really restate it anyway. What I did was turn your point on its head to show you that looking at things from a personal angle, the crime mentioned in the OP could be every bit as invasive as a home invasion. And worse than a home invasion, you can't just shoot your gun and solve the problem, because the crime has suborned the power of the State to be used against you.
Suborning power is a very serious crime precisely because it opens the portals for other, and greater injustices -- and it is even more serious because it involves leaders violating public trust, which corrodes the ability of government to address issues even when the politicians are honest.
