Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexey Merz responded to > > How many innocent people are certain to suffer at the hands of the ten freed guilty? with > Is it really 10:1? - ------------------------------------------- I took the quote from the American/Canadian J.L.Halperin's The Truth Machine, where he attributes it to the jurist W.Blackstone upon which the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights were based. Last month when I felt the flu bug coming on I made a dash to the public library and grabbed half a dozen novels at random. Of these six books three of them made reference to this statement about allowing "10 men to go free rather than let one innocent suffer" Hence my synchronicity remark when I read the LUG doing the same thing. One of the novels was by James Lee Burke. The main character (a cop) was asked ... why the judicial system put so many crooks back on the street. The answer, to keep the cops so busy with their heads down in the gutter that they won't have time to investigate the real crooks in the legislature. Incidentally, Stop and Search, is a new(ish) method being tried by the British Police. They are being trained to do this without antogonizing the subject. Very difficult, and there are daily criticisms in the press about these "in your face" tactics. But it seems to be working. OK, so its OT but I find it interesting what other photographers think about various topics other than what lens they prefer. Alan