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Reply #3: The laws do get in the way of efficient enforcement. They're supposed to.
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Sat Dec-24-05 09:22 AM
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3. The laws do get in the way of efficient enforcement. They're supposed to. |
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There is an eternal conflicts between the task of a gov't to protect the citizens, and the rights of the citizens that it is supposed to protect. A GENUINE police state with honest police is extremely efficient at protecting the citizens from both terrorists and common crime. And if it stopped there, everyting would be great. But no gov't is ever able to stop there. That kind of power corrupts and a gov't with that power would soon become a worse danger than the terrorists and criminals. So we place restrictions on the gov't's ability to protect us from bad guys to prevent the gov't from becoming our worst nightmare.
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