ma ni wrote:
>Regarding the third suggestion:
>"an outraged public should force lawmakers to pass laws for the
>creation of bodies external to the judiciaries to take effective
>action on complaints against judges and make judges accountable
>for the use of public funds."
>
>It has no merit. It is only extinguishing fire with gasoline;
>just more big-govt mentality: feed the parasite. Judges are
>already supposed to be the "external bodies" who watch over the
>welfare of the defendants to see they get fair trials. Who says
>the new “external bodies” / govt watchers ("watcher watchers")
>will be any less corruptible? Who will watch them? When they
>fail, who will watch the next crop of watcher watchers? And who
>will be left to be able to pay them all?
>
>-Mark
>
>
Excellent point. Obviously, the proposal has to be modified. It is not
government officials who are going to fix the problem. They are part of
the problem. The outside elements needed are juries, trial and grand,
and private prosecutors, and to work it is they who have to be brought
in. Even they can be corrupted, of course. Our hope that they will do
their jobs righteously is that they are drawn at random from the public
and serve too briefly to be got to. Obviously, if the general public is
corrupted, there is no hope.
What Cordero's proposal addresses is providing the private prosecutors,
although perhaps he doesn't realize that yet. Getting it before a
virtuous jury is the challenge.
-- Jon
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