Comments on: In a Perverse Way, Afghan Justice Is Less Perverse

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:27:13 +0000

Spare the troops: transfer Bush and Obama to Afghani jurisdiction.

By: Dan Jeffreys

Dan Jeffreys — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:02:00 +0000

The criminal justice system in the U.S. serves two primary purposes.
1. It is used as yet another means for the government to plunder our wealth. Examples would be traffic tickets and their ever increasing ability to take your car and sell it and keep the money for themselves. [url=http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/traffic/counties-hunt-for-fake-inspection-stickers-031912]Here[/url] is a perfect example. The whole point to the story is summed up in one line: “The vehicles will go through the courts and the constable will try to seize them because of their fake inspection stickers.”
2. To enforce submission of the masses. Eric Peters has a good [url=http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/03/15/not-even-your-backyard-is-safe-from-them/]example[/url] of this.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:47:40 +0000

An excellent point by Lew Rockwell blog in what goes around comes around …

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/108309.html

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:38:13 +0000

Ten years of occupation of this pseudo-country has done nothing. In fact, the US was mucking around 1946 – 1978 spending much and accomplishing little:

http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/Foreign%20Affairs/us-afghan/helmand_0.htm

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/marja-50-years-ago-model-villages-and-american-money/

http://scottshelmandvalleyarchives.org/docs/evl-88-14.pdf

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA518306

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/marja-from-usaid-to-u-s-marines/

but without the killing. Now, we send brain damaged soldiers on their 4th tour of duty into that sinkhole and get shocked when one of them murders people “ad hoc” instead of the traditional “drone – collateral – damage – oops!” approved method.

Fleming is right from the Afghan point of view but there is NO WAY that our military will stomach handing over a soldier to the local mob to lynch. The demoralization of the troops watching a fellow soldier getting strung up would be immense.

Getting out of Afghanistan would make sense but 98% of delegates to the 2012 conventions support candidates who want our troops to stay there, getting mentally demoralized while absorbing mortar attacks daily and risking lives and limbs on daily patrols of a land where their throats would be slit if they were captured by most of the so-called “friendly” Afghans.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:22:37 +0000

If you’re asking me, the criminal justice systems focuses too much on retribution, rather than restitution. What good does it to me if the man who robs me ends up in prison, but my stolen things are neither returned, nor am I paid a sum of money in their stead?

By: adav84

adav84 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:50:23 +0000

that’s ahistoric demagoguery. ahistoric because in all societies that achieved anything worthwhile, like, computers, space travel and stuff, the trend has been towards a greater centralization on who can dispense violence for it to be legitimate (the state), and towards a greater “gentleness of manners.” you can’t make microchips when people, upon meeting, enumerate their ancestors to find a common one, in order to have a reason not to kill one another (like Somalia). demagoguery because of the appeal to emotions. maybe the western system justice failed the person by not punishing someone as hard as they wished it did, but that’s no reason to condemn it as a whole and reiterate noble savage myths. Anyway, I think societies where a simple fender bender type of accident becomes a thing between everyone in the extended families of both drivers involved are, in a way, primitive.