Legal lynching (cont’d)
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 13 years ago, in 2011, on the World Wide Web.
By a ideologically right-left, 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today (PDF) that a wrongly convicted Louisiana man—who at one point was just weeks away from execution—isn’t permitted to sue the DA’s office that for 14 years sat on the evidence proving his innocence. Jacob Sullum wrote about Connick…
We need government courts instead of private protection and arbitration because private protection associations would be accountable to the rich and powerful instead of being accountable to the people.
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Rad Geek People's Daily 2014-11-25 – We need government cops because private protection forces would be accountable to the powerful and well-connected instead of being accountable to the people.: