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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of...
| I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. |
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| Name: Tamara | 2013-02-26 |
| The imposition of an eestnsial distinction between the police and the public is a necessary component of totalitarianism, and the source of all the evil tendencies of the totalitarian system as a whole.Even if a system were not totalitarian at all, being tolerant of letting people alone in some sphere, as long as there are different rules for the common citizen and for the wielders of state authority, the system is eestnsially criminal in a technical sense of not observing the principle of rule of law, which requires that everyone be subject to the same laws.While most such governments in history have not been totalitarian in the modern sense (since they left people to decide much of the business of their own lives), this did not make the governments less evil nor their atrocities against the people less terrible.Simply put, do the police recognize the rights of everyone else to conceal potentially incriminating evidence of their actions in relation to the events of that day? If they have required (under penalty of law) any member of the public to explain their actions to the police, then how can it possibly be just for the police to refuse to explain their actions to the public upon demand?You may argue that 'necessity' compels the observance of a fundamental distinction between how the law is to apply to the police and how it is to apply to the public. Advocates of tyranny always resort to the argument of necessity. It doesn't change the fact that abolishing the central principle of government by the rule of law makes a system criminal.Chiu Chun-Ling. |
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