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Previous comments...
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
PS - I wonder how many liberals have violated campaign finance laws and what their 'punishments' were.
How much would you wager he makes no more films critical of "Dear Leader"... under threat of involuntary commitment to a mental facility by selfsame (in)justice?
Now... non-fiction. Ain't it the truth?
Jan
I think this judge needs a little of his own medicine.
My Great-grandfather loved saying, "Their minds are broken."
Anyone old enough to remember Joseph McCarthy?
Icelandic Law also had a provision for weregild. Weregild (man-gold) was a fee that you could pay in reparation for an ill deed (killing cow or kinsman). If the injured party did not choose to accept weregild, they could insist that you 'go to the island' and fight it out. (Radford, R. S. "Going to the Island: A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Medieval Icelandic Duel". Southern California Law Rev. 62 (1989) 615-44)
Some of these historic laws bear consideration in terms of whether they would be valuable in some form in today's society.
Jan
Deciding these things would have to be based on some pretty sound philosophy to be fair, but I am saying that imprisonment is kind of a catch all sentence that makes little sense when we all have to pay for keeping him imprisoned, medical care, food, etc.