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Responsible government means accountability to authority.

These people are accountable to whom? Themselves and no one else.Sheriff, Police, Prosecutors, Judges, politicians - they effectively form a distinct class that is separate from the general citizenry.

That is the problem, the only eventual authority of resort is diffuse: a difficult to coalesce public opinion that barely motivates a supine citizenry.

That is exactly why Franklin said, "A republic, if you can keep it."

[Still Thinking]

These people are accountable to whom? Themselves and no one else.Sheriff, Police, Prosecutors, Judges, politicians - they effectively form a distinct class that is separate from the general citizenry.

This part of the post really evoked Castigo Cay's America for me.