02-11-2008, 11:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2008, 11:14 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Pete, There appears to be a head of steam building in the US, UK and elsewhere about abolishing the 800 year old law of Double Jeopardy.
One cannot wonder whether this is being coordinated internationally, but it appears to be a move designed to weaken the Jury system of trial, which is most certainly not a good move.
Australia as of August 2007:
http://www.ministers.sa.gov.au/news.php?id=1988&print=1
Ireland, July 2008:
http://wearechangeireland.org/the-end-of...-jeopardy/
UK, April 2001:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr200...-a13.shtml
We are inching toward a Nazi-style 'justice' system, where if you are prosecuted you ARE ipso facto GUILTY, and will be found to be so.....no matter how many trials (or dirty tricks) it takes, until they do away with trials [hey, sounds like what the Bushaviks do in Gitmo and with their enemy combattants and suspected terrorists]. Is it only me, or does there seem to be a general unraveling of what very modest level of civilization and enlightenment we had. Quite sad that the English-speaking world seems to leading the latest charge to Dante's lowest level of 'Hell'.