as a spartan of sorts, and one thats shared laphroig with both a plank member of the nsa and the creator of fbi's hrt, id like to say these fellas are decent men and not petty. On Jul 2, 2013 12:55 AM, "Jeffrey Walton" <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:57 PM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> And when LEA > >>> get caught doing this nothing terribly bad happens to LEA (no officers > >>> go to prison, for example). > >> > >> It is often in the interest/whim of the executive to decline to > >> prosecute its own, > >> even if only to save embarassment, so many of these cases will never > see a jury. > >> That's why you need citizen prosecutors who can bring cases before both > grand > >> and final jury. For example, how many times have you seen a LE vehicle > failing > >> to signal, speeding/reckless, with broken running lights, etc... now > >> try to criminally > >> (not administratively) prosecute that just as you might be prosecuted > for same. > > > > I'd love to see proposals for how to criminal prosecutions by the > > public would work. > Sparta, one of the first democracies, would put the public officials > on trial at the end of their term. It was part of the process. > > I imagine their Spartan was sufficiently different so that folks like > Ted Kennedy (liar, cheat, murderer) would not have been able to serve > the class. > > Sorry for the OT chatter. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >
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