Comments on: The Joose is no longer loose http://cantseetheforest.org/2008/12/05/the-joose-is-no-longer-loose/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:00:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Curtis http://cantseetheforest.org/2008/12/05/the-joose-is-no-longer-loose/#comment-48562 Curtis Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:48:47 +0000 http://cantseetheforest.org/?p=704#comment-48562 That's a really good point--in retrospect the role of the media was the most interesting (and disheartening) aspect of the whole extravaganza. Something sort of primal and not-very-nice in me is just glad to see him be punished for <i>something</i>. That’s a really good point–in retrospect the role of the media was the most interesting (and disheartening) aspect of the whole extravaganza.

Something sort of primal and not-very-nice in me is just glad to see him be punished for something.

]]> By: opit http://cantseetheforest.org/2008/12/05/the-joose-is-no-longer-loose/#comment-48559 opit Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:20:51 +0000 http://cantseetheforest.org/?p=704#comment-48559 Didn't watch it. Couldn't be bothered with a deal where justice would be thwarted regardless of the decision in the court. Much is made of the deal "Innocent until proven guilty." I'm under the British system myself and know B.S. when it's flogged for centuries. Under the Napoleonic Code you're guilty unless proven innocent : but the penalty for false prosecution is likely the prosecutor's career. Conversely, our way of doing things makes them headhunters with incentive to harass. So if he could buy his way out : the rich escape again. If he really didn't do it : lost his savings to politics. Trial by media. With their record ? Didn’t watch it. Couldn’t be bothered with a deal where justice would be thwarted regardless of the decision in the court.
Much is made of the deal “Innocent until proven guilty.” I’m under the British system myself and know B.S. when it’s flogged for centuries.
Under the Napoleonic Code you’re guilty unless proven innocent : but the penalty for false prosecution is likely the prosecutor’s career. Conversely, our way of doing things makes them headhunters with incentive to harass.
So if he could buy his way out : the rich escape again.
If he really didn’t do it : lost his savings to politics.
Trial by media. With their record ?

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