20th November 2009, 1:56 AM
The secondary fear being tossed around is that these guys, if put in prison (instead of, what, summary execution?) will just recruit new members in jail and/or communicate secretly to coordinate attacks from in prison.
The people panicking about this have seen one too many episodes of law and order. This sort of thing just isn't reality. Besides, for those criminals deemed capable of this kind of communication, such as a mob boss, there IS a solution already in place. Permanent solitary confinement in a special prison just for such threats. Bam, problem solved.
Other than that, there's these weird "worries" that the judges of the case "need to think about their families", the idea being that if they DARE judge them, the people they care about might be in danger! Oh no!
So wait, first they say we should definitely detain them without their rights, then the moment we do this via trial, they lose all sense of courage and claim standing up for justice is irresponsible because you aren't showing proper care about your families being put in danger?
This is the sort of idiotic thing I hear now and then from some family members. They apparently occasionally overhear or are directly told by someone that they are a murder (and in one case, a murder for hire service) and they decide to just "let it go" out of fear of retribution, again having apparently watched too many movies and totally unaware that police can arrest someone without ever letting on just where they got their information.
The people panicking about this have seen one too many episodes of law and order. This sort of thing just isn't reality. Besides, for those criminals deemed capable of this kind of communication, such as a mob boss, there IS a solution already in place. Permanent solitary confinement in a special prison just for such threats. Bam, problem solved.
Other than that, there's these weird "worries" that the judges of the case "need to think about their families", the idea being that if they DARE judge them, the people they care about might be in danger! Oh no!
So wait, first they say we should definitely detain them without their rights, then the moment we do this via trial, they lose all sense of courage and claim standing up for justice is irresponsible because you aren't showing proper care about your families being put in danger?
This is the sort of idiotic thing I hear now and then from some family members. They apparently occasionally overhear or are directly told by someone that they are a murder (and in one case, a murder for hire service) and they decide to just "let it go" out of fear of retribution, again having apparently watched too many movies and totally unaware that police can arrest someone without ever letting on just where they got their information.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)