I'm never really surprised to find that perspective in people who feel they've been on the wrong side of the system and don't have the experience to counter it or particular education in the whole of it...or maybe he was simply comparing it to the perfect. But he's wrong short of that and every system is short of that.
His case has nothing to do with it, since he wasn't tried under our system or by our laws.
Sure do. And their systems frequently differ dramatically from our own, from the system Bob feels let down by. Were you attempting an inferential thesis that all systems are broken comparatively? It's an interesting claim, but my point was to address the initial comment and then illicit whatever your larger thesis might be in particular relief. I attempted the latter by asking if you realized the second bit wasn't something you could lay at the feet of the U.S. justice system, the thing Bob was criticizing (and I think, mistakenly) as a rule.Other countries have courts, as well.lain:
Bob, Jim, Joe, Clyde...
It happened in South Africa. :AMR:
...Sally, Sue, Penelope... Ps 33:12
There's nothing like the vigorous defense of a point...and I think that amply qualifies.
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oly: ~ J. Vernon McGee
“You know, if a waitress asks me if I want ketchup with my fries, I’ll reply, “No thanks, I’ll just drink water.” And that’s not just a statement about table etiquette; it’s a personal quote that accurately reflects my moral and philosophical belief system.” Jerod Kintz"We give out the word of God. What men do with it is their business."
"Today we do not have a justice system. We have just a system." ~ Bob Enyart Deut. 32:4
So you repeated already. I'm pretty sure I responded directly to that one.
You just, if inadvertently, made a funny.
Even funnier, since it couldn't be an ad hominem unless your post itself was meant as one.