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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> There is somewhat of a due process problem here, but do you have a problem
> with the police locking up a suspected murderer until the trial? There does
> have to be a capability to respond immediately to problems.
Certainly, but that sticker seemed like Judge, Jury, and Excecutioner all in
one shot, and its effects lingered long after it was removed.
I understand your analogy about the suspected murderer, in that imprisonment
removes a potentially dangerous individual from the streets until a judgment
can be made. But at the same time, the effects of the sticker were much more
far reaching than the situation at hand. I would extend the analogy by
suggesting that the suspected murderer would either have to have his hands
removed for several months as a precautionary measure (or maybe forever, if
he's guilty--this is a thought model, after all!) or at the very least take
away his right to bear arms (to re-connect it once more with the original
debate, and assuming that the murder weapon was a gun). Even if he's not
guilty, he can't get his gun--or by analogy, the customers--back for at least
many months or perhaps years. Doesn't the sentence then far exceed the scope of
the non-commited crime?
Perhaps, though, there exists some form of agreement between businesses and
the local board of health under which such snap sentencing is permitted--I'll
have to look into it further.
Dave!
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