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To: BlackElk
After all, you have decreed it and you are THE sovereign citizen, right?

I am a citizen of this country. I voted for my representatives in the federal government. They passed, and the duly elected President signed, laws that mandate what I wish to have happen - that illegal aliens should be deported when found. For you to insinuate that there is something unforward in my asking that the law be followed means you have no respect for the law you purport to serve, which is an embarassment to the state bar you are registered with.

451 posted on 01/17/2003 2:29:28 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
I don't know what "unforward" means. The closest word would seem to be untoward. Yes, regardless of all those qualifications, the government is well-empowered to to ignore your demands and to choose, according to its own criteria (sensible or not) to enforce or not enforce any law. To the extent that you think you are empowered to order the government to obey your wishes as to the exercise of its discretion, your attitude is untoward. That is, you are impertinent in your powerlessness. Prosecutorial discretion is law. That is the way the law works. Ask any lawyer with a criminal practice and he or she will tell you about the existence and importance of prosecutorial discretion.

The insults have the usual effect: none.

473 posted on 01/17/2003 3:14:17 PM PST by BlackElk (Viva Cristo Rey)
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