Death Penalty, the Labor Party, & Political Responsibility(wasRe: Break...

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 02:15 PM 2/9/00 -0500, Doug asks wrote:
>Wojtek, sometimes you're kind of scary. A fair trial is a 
>"technicality"? There was a time when "ordinary people not versed in 
>legal nuances" committed lynchings. Surely that's not what you have 
>in mind. But what do you have in mind?
>

That if you want to pick up a political fight, you do not want a poster boy
who has skeletons in his closet and his main defence is a spin on legal
procedures. 

Most people understand "justice" as "crime does not pay" rather than "let
the criminal walk because the cop who arrested him did not fill the
required paperwork."  Simplistic?  Sure.  But ridiculing it by calling it a
"lynch mob mentality" will ceratinly not change that.

wojtek