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To: Critter
I don't think anyone is under any obligation to prosecute illegal laws, so his choices are actually: Do his job and drop the charges, or prosecute an illegal law.

So, he should just use 'His' judgement, and only prosecute laws he agrees with, or against clients he doesn't like. huh? Why go through the bother of challenging the counstitutionality of the law? The prosecutor's job is to prosecute people accused of breaking the law. If the law is found to be unjust, or uncounstitutional; the law is struck down. On the other hand, you are giving a gov't bureacrat the ability to selectivly enforce laws based upon a whim.

183 posted on 04/08/2003 8:31:34 AM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Hodar
It doesn't take a liar, I mean lawyer to understand the 2nd amendment. The 5th column may have made you believe it does, but that doesn't make it so.

The DA, being educated in law, should be the first to see the violation. He does (correct me if I'm wrong) take an oath to uphold the Constitution, so prosecuting a case based on an unconstitutional law is a violation of that oath. If he is not expected to understand the meaning of the Constitution, why is he asked to take that oath?

The supreme court has not directly taken on the issue, so it stands to reason that he has to use his judgement. His judgement HAS to be based on the simple wording of the 2nd and not on some contrived, leftist "interpretation" which the 2nd does not need. It is written in simple english, no interpretation necessary.

203 posted on 04/08/2003 8:44:45 AM PDT by Critter (Going back to sleep til the next revolution.)
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To: Hodar

I would have bet a million $$ (if I had it) that the "the law is the law" contingent was going to show up on this thread. 30

Each person of the contingent has a vested interest in status quo establishment politics. You already know this so I post it for others who may not.

How is it that people and society in general have prospered and increased their well being for decades yet the politicians and bureaucrats say we must have another 3,000 laws and regulations each year... That without them people and society face "disaster". People and society have done quite well without next year's 3,000 new federal laws and regulations. Why all of a sudden can people and society not continue to do quite well without them? The fact is, they'd be better off without 99% of them.

So who really benefits from 3,000 new laws and regulations each year? -- not to mention state laws and regulations. Politicians and bureaucrats. They create boogieman problems and with a complicit media towing their boogieman problems cast a net of false fear and unwarranted despair in people.

Quite literally, they create problems where none exist. They're sick in that they chose to frighten people and foist false despair on them and do that to collect their unearned paychecks. Their job security is predicated on deceiving as many people as possible.

Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. How can so many people thinking they're right be so wrong?

Wake up! Politics is not the solution -- politics is the problem.

Who are the producers?
Who are the parasites?
Praise the value producers --
ostracizing the parasitical value destroyers.

217 posted on 04/08/2003 8:54:19 AM PDT by Zon
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To: Hodar
"On the other hand, you are giving a gov't bureacrat the ability to selectivly enforce laws based upon a whim."

They already do. 'Pod

294 posted on 04/08/2003 10:01:05 AM PDT by sauropod (I'm a man... But I can change... If I have to.... I guess...................)
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