[Vision2020] Nation of Laws

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Roger,

Andreas has already talked about how civil disobedience demonstrates that existing laws are unjust. I cannot comprehend how you can compare civil disobedience to laws banning torture.

Are you saying laws banning torture are unjust?

You keep saying that to fail to torture in order to save lives is cowardice.  We clearly view 'cowardice' in different ways.

I think a coward is a person who would order torture, or who would him/herself torture a prisoner.  The prisoner is helpless and in custody. The captor has complete and total control of that person. To torture such a helpless person is a monstrous act of cowardice and is despicable.

Yet you are accusing the law-abiding person who refuses to torture of cowardice. 

You otherwise seem to be decent, but I find the things you say on this issue incredible. Last week you said that a person who fails to torture a captive should be prosecuted for dereliction of duty. So you want to abuse governmental power to prosecute the law-abiding. 

You call that a nation of laws? I don't.

Sunil

> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:14:09 -0700
> From: lfalen at turbonet.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Nation of Laws
> 
> For some reason "reply all" did not work on your post.
> Yes I thing we should be a Nation of Laws. To not be would result in anarchy or a dictatorship.
> This does not mean that we should blinding follow all laws. Laws that violate peoples freedom or put us in harms way in national security should be opposed even at the peril of going to jail as those in the civil rights movement did. To  do other wise is cowardice.
> Roger
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