Gunnar
Army.ca Veteran
- Reaction score
- 490
- Points
- 1,030
I think the penaltiles need to be harsher for grow ops and the judges need to wake up and smell the coffee. If they had to run for election every 5 yrs they would sure as hell represent the will of the people within the limits of the law a lot more then the tend to now.
Yes, they might represent the will of the majority....but remember, there are more poor, dumb, low-class wage earners who aren't interested in ideas than there are the few, intelligent ones. This isn't a comment on where people are or where they come from, but more on their ambivalence towards ideas....if you don't think about things critically, then you champion things which sound good in the short term but which cause disaster in the long term. And you vote for people who can bring this kind of short-term thinking into the political or legal sphere. In civil law, this means that the rich corporation always loses to the poor dope who should have known better. There are more dopes than rich corps, and corps don't vote. In criminal law, it means that the majority can vote someone in who is soft on crime *directly* rather than having to wait until the judges die so that their "soft on crime" government can appoint new ones.