To: Diana in Wisconsin
I’m not torn at all. The fellow has issues and needs some help.
However, he isn’t a criminal. If thoughts make one a criminal, then we can all be put in jail at any time.
This is wrong.
2 posted on
08/24/2007 8:01:12 PM PDT by
American_Centurion
(No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
To: American_Centurion
However, he isn’t a criminal. If thoughts make one a criminal, then we can all be put in jail at any time. I don't feel particularly happy about it, but I agree.
4 posted on
08/24/2007 8:07:51 PM PDT by
Dianna
To: American_Centurion
If the government were able to read my thoughts, they would brand me a dangerous sociopath. (Especially when I am in line at a supermarket or DMV or I am in traffic.)Whenever I am in a large group of people, I am always pro-eugenics.
5 posted on
08/24/2007 8:08:29 PM PDT by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one" - Hamilton)
To: American_Centurion
However, he isn’t a criminal. Yes, he is a criminal who has been on probation for the very crimes he NOW expresses fantasies of repeating.
To his probation officer no less.
If thoughts make one a criminal, then we can all be put in jail at any time.
Really? Do you tell probation officers (after violating your probabation) that you fantasize about committing criminal acts you are now on probation for?
This is far more than a case of the "thought police" jailing innocent people.
8 posted on
08/24/2007 8:13:16 PM PDT by
Jorge
To: American_Centurion
Involuntary commitment for dangerous minds is a legal precedent with a loooonnnng history.
13 posted on
08/24/2007 8:26:13 PM PDT by
Mariner
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