[Skybird]

Guilt is not to be believed or assumed, guilt has to be proven at court. That is one of the most fundamental principles of Western legal systems and that is one of the major characteristics that enobles us over the legal systems of other cultures there are, and we should be, very, very thankful for having it the way we do, although in the name of the anti-terror-measures after 9/11 - and in reality for increasing control options by the state - this principle in parts has been inverted.

However, needing to prove guilt is what "Rechtsstaatlichkeit" (law and order? the rule of legal law?) is about, Steam Wake.

Everything else is "rotating a bottle", and who gets pointed at, gets lynched.

But I admit that the bureaucrats have managed to pervert the process of justice far beyond reason and replaced justice and reason with the dictate of bureaucratic rules about rules on rules that govern rules. This is very, very bad, and in itself as damaging to justice as is lynching.