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Re: Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

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Post by denton-scratch »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #14
skywal_l wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has I said in another comment, it is not about education or intelligence. Read the article. The politicians trying to intimidate the St Louis Post Dispatch have a history of intimidation against journalists. Demagoguery is unfortunately a chronic condition of democracy.

Any thoughts on how to tailor political systems to work around demagoguery but maintain functioning democracy?

What's democracy? Is that when stuff gets done to you by corrupt politicians, and you have to shut up and suck it, except that every few years you get to swap one bunch of corrupt politicians for another bunch?

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Post by ThrustVectoring »

denton-scratch wrote: post #19

> If somebody picks your lock on your house It's not like picking a lock. It's more like turning over a sheet of paper to read what's on the other side. If this guy gets convicted, I'll eat my hat (I wear a fedora). "Thy just thow their fedora wherever the floor is And start doing horas and taps".

The process is the punishment here. The only adequate protection against capricious prosecution is that in principle you can make a stink and vote out the elected officials abusing their power.

Re: Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

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Post by skywal_l »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #14
skywal_l wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has I said in another comment, it is not about education or intelligence. Read the article. The politicians trying to intimidate the St Louis Post Dispatch have a history of intimidation against journalists. Demagoguery is unfortunately a chronic condition of democracy.

Any thoughts on how to tailor political systems to work around demagoguery but maintain functioning democracy?

If only I knew... Might be worth reading de Tocqueville[0] again I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America

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Post by MR4D »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #14
skywal_l wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has I said in another comment, it is not about education or intelligence. Read the article. The politicians trying to intimidate the St Louis Post Dispatch have a history of intimidation against journalists. Demagoguery is unfortunately a chronic condition of democracy.

Any thoughts on how to tailor political systems to work around demagoguery but maintain functioning democracy?

We already have it - it’s the 3 branches of government that provide for an independent judiciary.

Re: Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

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Post by Ekaros »

jimnotgym wrote: post #9

Am I to understand that a state governer has the power to instruct some lacky-lawyer to charge someone with a crime, and to prosecute them for that crime? In the land of the free, this is not an independent process?

It is all politics. Prosecutors are sometimes elected with political ambitions. And on higher level in same corrupt parties are those on state level... Thus pressure to do things...

Re: Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

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Post by Ekaros »

jimnotgym wrote: post #20
Broken_Hippo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are surprised? We already know that a prosecutor will try for higher sentences near an election and... well, they are elected. It isn't hard to imagine that an elected official works with other elected officials, especially if they want to do other things in government.

I live in the UK. I am very suprised yes

As European, I find it insane that I could elect the prosecutor or even the police. And in some ways that politicians would have any word on this apart from deciding the funding and laws...

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Post by skywal_l »

MR4D wrote: post #25
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any thoughts on how to tailor political systems to work around demagoguery but maintain functioning democracy?

We already have it - it’s the 3 branches of government that provide for an independent judiciary.

In theory. I believe the system was setup to ensure that the judicial system is independent from the executive branch. However, we have seen the nefarious influence of money in politics which is now starting to encroach on the judicial system too:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judges-brokers-traded-s...

https://iadllaw.org/2020/09/more-than-200-lawyers-file-judic...

Re: Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser

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Post by ttybird2 »

jimnotgym wrote: post #20
Broken_Hippo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are surprised? We already know that a prosecutor will try for higher sentences near an election and... well, they are elected. It isn't hard to imagine that an elected official works with other elected officials, especially if they want to do other things in government.

I live in the UK. I am very suprised yes

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