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treestar

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37. It's totalitarian to allow investigation?

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:02 PM

Jun 2013

I don't get it. Are the police only to question the guilty? If they did things right, then their arrests would only be of the guilty? So the jury is not needed? This goes beyond idealism into just plain demanding that the government be as just as God. It should figure out who dunnit without questioning or inconveniencing anyone, or it is totalitarian. I think thus all government on Earth are totalitarian.

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This ^^^^^^ treestar Jun 2013 #36

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The plot sickens! treestar Jun 2013 #33

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