Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
> > we in the US do not trust our governemnt that much.
> You're contradicting yourself. On one hand you say you > don't trust the government (in this case, a member of > the Judicial branch), but on the other hand you've > stated that the three branches (Legislative, Executive > and Judicial) keep each other in check and prevent each > other from abusing their power.
It's not a contradiction at all. We don't trust *any* branch of the government too far, so we have two other branches to keep the third from becoming too powerful. We don't trust the other two branches to do this out of the goodness of their hearts, either. It's in their *best interests* to keep each other in check, so they can keep their own power.
Of course, we understand that if all three branches of government band together to abuse their power, then we're completely screwed, but that's true of any government. At least in our case, we have an extra level of security in place between decent government and Orwellian nighmare. If all else fails, we can always at least *attempt* to overthrow the too-far-gone, corrupted government. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com
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