If I lived in a community where jury nullification was being misused to allow the violation of the rights of women by allowing men to murder their wives, I'd take the law into my own hands and start killing everyone who served on a jury and nullified it in such cases.
--- In [email protected], "David Macko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was a really low blow to compare me to Dondero or Cohen. > What would you do about a community with jury nullification > which defacto allowed husbands to punish adultery in the manner which I described? > > For life, liberty, justice and peace, > David Macko > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul T. Ireland > To: David Macko > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:00 AM > Subject: Re: Contracts, Marital and Otherwise was Re: [Libertarian] Re: The Fallacy of Open I > > > Heck, why stop 50 years ago? Why not go back to the middle-ages where we could stone her to death, or put her in the stocks to be beaten and humiliated to death? How about we setup sharia law where we can burn her to death? Is that truly what you consider to be libertarian? If so, allow me to be the first to say you are every bit as libertarian than Eric Dondero or Bruce Cohen... > > Ghengis Khan, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, etc. > > > > > > > On 9/18/06, David Macko <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Of course, if another important premise of libertarianism, > jury nullification, again regained its status, we might see > situations such as I understand occurred in Texas until > fifty years ago. Perhaps Terry could confirm this for us. > According to the information I heard, if a man found his > wife serving the pleasure of another man and shot both > of them he would not be brought to trial since the prosecutor, > sheriff and other authorities understood that no jury would > convict him anyway. > > For life, liberty, justice and peace, > David Macko > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
