Wow, thanks Richard. I really appreciate that mail from you :)
Perhaps I should underline that the pulitzer-prize-part was just me
kidding - I didn't mean to show off or anything.
I'm also happy that we agree, although I don't think that my conclusions or
speculations are completely unassailable
I agree. Also on your last point.
Martin Malmkvist
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You're welcome, and thank you for saving me all that typing. I'll just
add a few notes. Firstly, as far as I can see the collapse of the Third
Reich was caused by
At Stardate 20030626.0002, Jan Coffey wrote:
IIRC, that's not going to happen: the EU recently decided NOT to
federalise.
Yes and the lack of the other two branches is troubeling.
The EU doesn't have these three branches yet because it's not a country;
the EU is a body in which a number of
At Stardate 200326.0034, Bryon Daly wrote:
When someone allegedly broke a law, do you really believe that uneducated
Joe Average is more qualified to determine whether a law really was
broken than someone who has actually *studied* the laws?
I think that a large part of the judgement of a case
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Stardate 20030626.0002, Jan Coffey wrote:
IIRC, that's not going to happen: the EU recently decided NOT to
federalise.
Yes and the lack of the other two branches is troubeling.
The EU doesn't have these three branches yet
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Stardate 20030626.0014, Jan Coffey wrote:
That has nothing to do with the concept of trial by jury. The jury
system
doesn't have any more safeguards against an innocent man being
convicted
than our system has.
Your system has
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Stardate 20030626.0018, Jan Coffey wrote:
I trust an average person taken from the street far more than I would
trust someone who does it for a living.
So, when you feel ill, you ask a not-medically-trained average person
from
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See other post about law complexity.
Where more technical points of law are involved, the judge is involved,
and he/she can dismiss the case, declare a mistrial, exclude evidence,
instruct the jury on the points of law, order the jury not
