8th July 2005, 3:50 PM
Read the article. It's not the US court.
It's the Russian court.
There's a matter I didn't even bother bringing up myself, but it's worth asking the question.
Could any court order from a foreign government really hold any power at all over an American citizen and/or institution? The very most they could get out of us is that our own courts would look into the matter and make their own verdict.
But, just so you know, yes, our courts have made some very horrible errors in logical thinking before.
For example, the AMAZING Randi has been privy to a case against a psychic on charges of fraud (I am shocked these cases aren't tried more often) in which the judge stated at the very start that the existance of psychic powers is an established fact and any prosecution can't call the existance of psychic powers itself into question, just whether or not this person actually had them. That pretty much killed the entire prosecuting case right there as you can imagine... When a judge has decided that scientific process and the ability to correct data (in this case, the total refusal to consider reviewing any evidence that psychic powers didn't exist, because they simply "did"), the entire process of law has been thrown out the window.
It's the Russian court.
There's a matter I didn't even bother bringing up myself, but it's worth asking the question.
Could any court order from a foreign government really hold any power at all over an American citizen and/or institution? The very most they could get out of us is that our own courts would look into the matter and make their own verdict.
But, just so you know, yes, our courts have made some very horrible errors in logical thinking before.
For example, the AMAZING Randi has been privy to a case against a psychic on charges of fraud (I am shocked these cases aren't tried more often) in which the judge stated at the very start that the existance of psychic powers is an established fact and any prosecution can't call the existance of psychic powers itself into question, just whether or not this person actually had them. That pretty much killed the entire prosecuting case right there as you can imagine... When a judge has decided that scientific process and the ability to correct data (in this case, the total refusal to consider reviewing any evidence that psychic powers didn't exist, because they simply "did"), the entire process of law has been thrown out the window.
"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)