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<blockquote data-quote="okcBob" data-source="post: 4332100" data-attributes="member: 45783"><p>Well you certainly don’t subscribe to the famous Blackstone ratio of <em>“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.“</em></p><p>Or as Ben Franklin stated it as: "<em>it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer"</em>.</p><p></p><p>The American legal system echoes these common law values & has long erred on the side of protecting innocence.</p><p></p><p> A similar principal is in the Bible: “<em>Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?.. What if ten are found there?" He [The Lord] said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."</em></p><p></p><p>These long-standing US legal principles are the <strong>opposite</strong> of authoritarians from China, for example, in the 1930s: "<em>Better to kill a hundred innocent people than let one truly guilty person go free"</em>and during uprisings in Vietnam in the 1950s: "<em>Better to kill ten innocent people than let a guilty person escape</em>." And don’t forget Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge adopted a similar policy: "<em>better arrest an innocent person than leave a guilty one free."</em></p><p></p><p>I’d rather live by the US system than the authoritarian police state, but you do you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="okcBob, post: 4332100, member: 45783"] Well you certainly don’t subscribe to the famous Blackstone ratio of [I]“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.“[/I] Or as Ben Franklin stated it as: "[I]it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer"[/I]. The American legal system echoes these common law values & has long erred on the side of protecting innocence. A similar principal is in the Bible: “[I]Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?.. What if ten are found there?" He [The Lord] said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."[/I] These long-standing US legal principles are the [B]opposite[/B] of authoritarians from China, for example, in the 1930s: "[I]Better to kill a hundred innocent people than let one truly guilty person go free"[/I]and during uprisings in Vietnam in the 1950s: "[I]Better to kill ten innocent people than let a guilty person escape[/I]." And don’t forget Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge adopted a similar policy: "[I]better arrest an innocent person than leave a guilty one free."[/I] I’d rather live by the US system than the authoritarian police state, but you do you. [/QUOTE]
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