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Originally Posted by August
Says the guy who once wrote right here on this board that he favored killing the wives and children of foreign potentates in order to teach them a lesson. Why the sudden concern for our enemies rights?
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That ad hominem doesn't address his very well reasoned points.
The justice system, and indeed our entire political system, was originally set up to discourage individual abuses of power. It's the reasoning behind checks and balances. If you institute a justice system that has the right to unilaterally imprison people indefinitely under the assumption of guilt then the individual holds too much power over the system. It becomes subject to the whims and caprices of the individual. It goes entirely against how our country was established.