Comments on: Positive-Law Arguments For The Anthony Outcome

By: Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:00:00 +0000

As the average American continues to degrade mentally and despise government nonsense, it will one day be impossible to have a fair trial, or a functioning judicial system, no matter the laws or process.

Perhaps if this jury understood juror rights the outcome may have been different.

By: Abelard Lindsey

Abelard Lindsey — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:26:42 +0000

The problem with “Caylee’s Law” and the like is that it simply increases the burden of “good” parenting, which is already high enough.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:15:21 +0000

This essay-ette by Ilana is a case study in Libertarian Talmudics. Where shysters like Dershowitz are concerned, one need only listen to the deep tolling bell of economic/political self interest. Ditto the contradictions between his socio-cultural bolshevism and violent Zionism. KMac analyzes this Tribal thing quite competently and, when I finish reading Mercer’s ITCP, I’ll apply some of his insights to an Amazon review of same.

[Sounds a bit ominous, CF. I hope not.]

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:16:46 +0000

Speaking of the 5th amendment, the only part of it I would reconsider in a case like this is not requiring the defendant to testify. I can get my head around the fact that the jury felt the prosecution didn’t prove murder but there ought to be some way of holding a mother accountable for not offering any plausible explanation of what happened to the daughter she was supposed to be caring for.

By: irongalt

irongalt — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:27:00 +0000

The only reason any guilty get punished, and any innocent go free, is a mix of random chance, financial affluence, and political pull.

We have a system of band-aids: Miranda rights to limit police who are loyal only to the state, and who have automatic and total immunity. Judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys who all come from the same self-serving cult, and a sea of laws supposed to prevent them from colluding. Checks and balances to limit a beast that should not be.

The age of instituted coercion is, by necessity, the age of the idiot. As Job so eloquently put it, “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.” (Job 14.4)

By: Lester Hunt

Lester Hunt — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:20:30 +0000

Alan once described himself to me as “a libertarian who thinks his taxes are too low>”