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Originally Posted by trilinearmipmap
I would expect that Teevee will pay a steeper penalty for his driving error than many violent criminals will pay if they ever get convicted.
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Something along those lines, certainly.
mpishi, no offense taken. English common law, upon which our system is based, dictates that I, as a citizen, have the right to defend myself and attempt to sway the court in my favour. As I said above, I realize I broke a law, and I am not trying to escape penalization. I am simply exercising my rights as a tax-payer. To me it's the classic "checks and balances" coming into play.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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