Are you advocating a lawless society Rigs? If not, what is your point? CW
----- Original Message ----- From: "rigsy03" <[email protected]> To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 07:34 Subject: Re: What do you remember? Everything.// Law and government are a straight jacket- a means of control. On Jun 20, 4:39 am, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpt: > > Some researchers... are increasingly questioning the way that the police, > lawyers and the courts think about memory. They argue that this > conventional model of memory – like a detailed photograph or video film – > is fundamentally flawed. > > One of the most prominent of these researchers, Prof Elizabeth Loftus of > the University of California at Irvine, even says that courts should have > a new oath for witnesses: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole > truth, or whatever it is you think you remember?" > > Memory research > > Now Prof Martin Conway, a cognitive psychologist at Leeds University, has > drawn up a report for the British Psychological Society and the Law > Society calling for a major rethink of memory and the law. > > He suggests his guidelines will help scientists who specialise in memory > research when they testify as expert witnesses to help the courts assess > the evidence. > > [...] > > What do you remember? > By Rebecca Fordham > Tuesday, 17 June 2008 09:48 > UKhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7457653.stm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
