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Stop regurgutating that idiotic political spew. Start thinking for yourself or shut the fuck up. The FBI has no jurisdiction. Courts have jurisdiction. A sing

Stop regurgutating that idiotic political spew. Start thinking for yourself or shut the fuck up. The FBI has no jurisdiction. Courts have jurisdiction. A single partial fingerprint would have been laughed out of the prosecutor's office. If the prosecutor was idiotic or careless, the judge would have thrown it out. If by some reverse miracle the judge had believed it, the jury, defense lawyer, and expert witnesses would have stopped it. There are dozens of layers of reviews and protections, not the ignorant "FBI has sole jurisdiction" theory you are spouting. Honestly, have you never in you life watched a single episode of a police procedural TV show? Even an episode of Cops? There is also the matter of the DNA that goes along with every fingerprint, which would have definitively exonerated the suspect. The FBI was simply doing their job: vacuum up as much information as possible and look for patterns. Their only legal obligation to the suspect is to get search warrants before searching and not torture him. Period. Cops incriminate, the rest of the system sorts it out. You want an investigator that analyzes the value of evidence and lays criminal charges too, you convene a grand jury. But not the FBI, not cops of any kind.

mattdeboard 13y ago
> Honestly, have you never in you life watched a single episode of a police procedural TV show? Even an episode of Cops? Haha, c'mon. Your supporting evidence is Law & Order? When there are judges being sent to prison because they themselves were found sending boys to private prisons for money, do you expect people to have confidence in the justice system? Yes, fabulous, the judges were eventually caught. But in the meantime their corruption inflicted serious harm on all involved. I'm pretty sure you're trolling. I need to believe you are.
- Daniel_Newby 13y ago
  The alternative to a flawed law enforcement system is not a good one. The alternative is rule by violence. We can have rather a lot of corrupt child-enslaving Louisiana judges and still be a thousand times better off than being under the thumb of the local strongman. And that is exactly the decision we face. If somebody does not stop rapists and bombers, then within days they will be running our lives, like they do in so many "developing" countries. You need to believe I am trolling because you have childish political theories that if we just try harder we can get perfect justice for all. But the actual world has no stable outside context that organizes and perfects justice. The actual world has to self-organize using flawed tools. In that context, we are immensely fortunate to have secret police who respond to an atrocity by inconveniencing a single person for a few days. Most today do not have such a wonderful justice system, and more than a few hundred years ago no one did.

mattdeboard 13y ago

> Honestly, have you never in you life watched a single episode of a police procedural TV show? Even an episode of Cops? Haha, c'mon. Your supporting evidence is Law & Order? When there are judges being sent to prison because they themselves were found sending boys to private prisons for money, do you expect people to have confidence in the justice system? Yes, fabulous, the judges were eventually caught. But in the meantime their corruption inflicted serious harm on all involved. I'm pretty sure you're trolling. I need to believe you are.

Daniel_Newby 13y ago
The alternative to a flawed law enforcement system is not a good one. The alternative is rule by violence. We can have rather a lot of corrupt child-enslaving Louisiana judges and still be a thousand times better off than being under the thumb of the local strongman. And that is exactly the decision we face. If somebody does not stop rapists and bombers, then within days they will be running our lives, like they do in so many "developing" countries. You need to believe I am trolling because you have childish political theories that if we just try harder we can get perfect justice for all. But the actual world has no stable outside context that organizes and perfects justice. The actual world has to self-organize using flawed tools. In that context, we are immensely fortunate to have secret police who respond to an atrocity by inconveniencing a single person for a few days. Most today do not have such a wonderful justice system, and more than a few hundred years ago no one did.