For anyone who's wondering: the reasons we worry about civil rights for people who
may be criminals is because it's too damned hard to be sure we only give them to
innocent people. Especially in the case of innocent people who were in the wrong
place at the wrong time and ended up looking like criminals. Also, it's important
that in trying to punish those who are guilty, we maintain our own morals. This is
not so much because of what it does to them as because of what it does to us.
Also because what if those who decide what is a criminal act aren't right every
time? (*cough* Ashcroft *cough*)
And like
href="http://bastion.diaryland.com/904.html">Bastion, another Wondering Jew, I
hear Pastor
Niemoller's words echoing louder every time I hear the domestic news.
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