There will always be one, so ready your shotgun steady in case for chaos

Thank you for taking the time to write such a verbose response. I hope I find the time and energy to respond and need to wait for a calmer moment before doing so. It has nothing to do with what you have written, other life factors require my attention and are quite emotionally challenging, hence it is not the best time for me to reply.

We definitely have points of agreement with what has been written :) I wasn't as clear or comprehensive as I could have been with my previous posts. I have favourited this topic so I can return to it later.

An imperfect machine created by imperfect beings. I can't wait to see how that turns out.

But I feel no fear. John Connor will save us.

FYI, I called the U.S. legal system garbage but I didn't call the people who have to work with it, garbage. So please don't think I called all lawyers, garbage or all judges, garbage or everyone who has done jury duty, garbage. I agree with your post and kind of envy you because of your awesome job. :) It must be really cool being someone who makes a living by fighting for people in court. Whenever, you win you make a real difference because you basically saved someone's life.

Yes because letting guilty people walk away is a lesser evil compared to sending innocent people to HELL(on earth).

Calling a legal system "garbage" because a very small minority are convinted when innocent is ludicrous? You wouldn't think it is ludicrous if it was you or someone you care about forced to spend 19 years in prison because someone said something. A small minority of people is a small minority of people too much...

The system doesn't need to be 100% accurate when it comes to finding out if someone is guilty or not. It just has to take the words, innocent until proven guilty, seriously. That is all. If there was evidence to support her story then that means he did molest her unless of course the 11 year old girl is an evil genius and created fake evidence but I highly doubt that. I didn't set the bar at perfection. What I'm basically saying is any system that doesn't take seriously, the words, innocent until proven guilty is garbage. Most civilized peoples in the history of the world had legal systems that adhered to innocent until proven guilty. Why? Because it's the best option. It might not be 100% perfect but it's the best option. And if our legal system started being more civilized and less barbaric, it would be a huge step in the right direction even if the system wasn't 100% accurate at delivering "justice". So that is how the US legal system can be improved. But how to get there? That is a difficult question because in the end, it all comes down to power. Not what is right and what is wrong. :(

You know what I'm even more worried about than if there are 2 or 3 asshats on the mission with me? The possibility that I myself might turn out to be one of the asshats! That would be even worse.

I've never heard about the Rocket Man movie, it sounds funny and immediately goes on my to-watch list. Can't believe I never heard about it, I swear someone has a time machine and travels back in time to edit in countless movies and games and then I shockingly discover them in the present day. And that's the real reason for me volunteering for the Mars Mission, it's not to serve mankind but so I can chew through my backlog, GOG games alone should last for a Martian decade.

And yet you refuse to answer how you would make it better. This is about the same point in other discussions where I have started to ignore you because you like to bitch and moan and absolutely ignore any attempt at discussion that doesn't further your ability to blindly do so.

19 years ?


Ohio Man Freed After 39 Years on Wrongful Conviction; Longest-Held U.S. Prisoner to Be Exonerated

An Ohio man has been freed from prison after spending 39 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Ricky Jackson, a 59-year old African-American man, had been jailed since 1975 on a murder conviction. The prosecution’s case was based on the testimony of a 13-year old witness. After a 2011 investigation, the witness recanted his testimony, saying he had implicated Jackson and two others under police coercion. The witness, Eddy Vernon, said police had fed him the story and threatened him with the arrest of his parents if he didn’t cooperate. On Friday, Ricky Jackson was freed after prosecutors dropped the case.

Source: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/24/headlines

When we introduce qualifications that amount to 'You are in servitude of the people of the nation, and cannot have a breach of conflict in your background'.

IE, it'd be incredibly bad to select a Kabletown Lobbyist as head of the FCC because they might be slightly biased, and it'd probably be an incredibly bad idea to have the maker of SOPA to be head of the Science Committee. A young earth creationist would have no place either.

Also, I'd advocate throwing the RIAA into a lake in Tennessee while stripping the MPAA of any power and making them a simple, OPEN ratings board. It probably isn't wise to have either one on capitol hill, and in today's age of internet, it'd actually be simpler to have them located in places of relevance. So the RIAA can go rot at the bottom of a lake, and the MPAA can relocate to Hollywood to make things simple.

Who says I have to have all the answers to all the universe's problems just because I complain about them in a forum? Is there a rule somewhere that states, I'm not allowed to say anything about something if I don't have the answer? No there isn't so STFU about me not having an answer(even though I already said the answer several times in this thread). The Romans in ancient times came up with the answer long ago. It's called innocent until proven guilty.

And so what if I like to bitch and moan? It makes me feel better. It's therapeutic. You like to bitch and moan about my bitching and moaning and everything else you don't like so you are no different when it comes to bitching and moaning. Human beings have been bitching and moaning since the beginning of time too so complaining about people complaining makes you look like some kind of retarded bubble boy. And you are seriously also mental because you are still butt hurt because of my words in the Hatred thread. You need to learn to let go of your butt hurt feelings... It's been like several weeks already... Stop posting here and get some help.

Sure. But Vitaly Kaloyev didn't actually agree for the alleged killers to be tried under Swiss law. He had no moral requirement to agree to a Swiss court's decision, especially considering the process hadn't even fucking started.

Seriously, check the map and the timeline:
Vitaly Kaloev's family
lived in: Russia (not Switzerland)
was travelling to: Spain (not Switzerland)
via: Belgium (not Switzerland)
and: Italy (not Switzerland)
and the plane crashed in: Germany (not Switzerland) [in 2006, a German court concluded Germany had no right to outsource their airpace to a foreign private company]

2002: plane crashes
2003: nothing happens
2004: Kaloyev murders Nielsen
2005: Kaloyev is convicted of murder
2006: charges against Skyguide are filed
2007: verdict is announced; Kaloyev is released

Note that I'm in no way defending the Russian legal system. Today is exactly one year since my friend was murdered, and another friend was murdered this June. The murderers walked free. The Russian legal system is shit. But even though a strong case could be made for the ethical necessity for the citizens of a country to follow the laws of that country, to prevent the greater harm of vigilantism, you can't actually blame a person for not accepting the verdict of a foreign court they didn't in any way endorse.

I work for a law firm which deals with tourism. It fucking boggles the mind how tourists are willing to fry their asses in human-rights-abusing countries, then demand compensation for the injustices they suffered there. Yes, partially, travel agencies are to blame for downplaying the danger. But holy fuck, if you consciously travelled to a country where rape victims are sentenced to lashings for "adultery" and then get raped there, don't fucking say the law shouldn't apply to you just because you're from another country.

TL;DR: I don't condone murder, and I'm all for social contract, and it was really evil on part of Kaloyev to murder an overworked grunt when he should have blamed the top management of Skyguide. But contracts you didn't agree to, even by omission or proxy, don't apply. If Best Korea decides you are guilty of sharding purplz, you have the full moral right to give them the middle finger.

You are mixing two things, one is the Skyguide trial and the other is the murder of Nielsen by Kaloyev. My post was about the murder of Nielsen by Kaloyev and how Kaloyev got away with minimal punishment. The murder took place in Switzerland and is therefor subject to Swiss law so your listing of geographical and chronological details about the Skyguide case is besides the point as that is another case. Connected story, separate case.

If a country has retarded laws (e.g. punishing rape victims for "adultery"), then simply don't go there. Ignorance of laws is no excuse, even if the law itself is ignorant. If someone got forced to be in a country against their own will that's a more tricky situation but Kaloyev came to Switzerland entirely on his own initiative.
When people travel anywhere, they need to at least familiarize themselves with the basics. If you go to Thailand, don't insult the king. If you go to Singapore, don't throw chewing gum on the street. And so on.

People who support Kaloyev are every bit as uncivilized as Gaddafi who behaved like an angry child when his son Hannibal got arrested in Switzerland for physically abusing his staff.
More details here:
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-07-25/gaddafi-sons-geneva-arrest-causes-crisis-with-libyabusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice

I can understand an individual's desire for revenge outside the law but when that sentiment is supported by officials as it was in the cases of Kaloyev and Hannibal Gaddafi, then that puts their respective places of origin in a bad light. Of course, the opinion of officials doesn't reflect the opinion of the populace, at least not in Gaddafi's case who had to bribe people to protest against Switzerland. Not so in Kaloyev's case who seemed to enjoy wide sympathy from Russians, at least in North Ossetia-Alania.
Kaloyev was made a minister which is adding insult to injury. How do you think Nielsen's innocent family feels about that? Kaloyev himself had to experience how insult to injury feels like when he didn't get (subjectively satisfactory) justice for his own family's death so to put that burden on other people is a testimony of incredibly weak character. Not "badass", as many of his supporters from his homeland thought - proof being that they appointed him a minister.

I'm not mixing anything. Above, you said: The rule of law means that if your family is killed, you are going to leave justice to the legal system and won't run around stabbing innocent people. However, it's predicated on the legal system actually doing something about the killing and you having implicitly or explicitly accepted it.

Kaloyev killed an innocent person because Swiss law, and international law, failed Kaloyev and did exactly nothing to bring corporate criminals to justice. And he got off lightly because the punishment for unlawfully killing a person varies depending on the motivation. The goal of the criminal justice system is not to jail as many people as possible (highscore!), it's to reduce the crime rate. Extenuating circumstances help to reduce the crime rate.

I don't know dick about Swiss law, except what I can read on the English wikipedia, and it says: So... Kaloyev got eight years, served four, and was released. Seems appropriate.