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Um... yes, yes it really can.
Your rights can be taken away, but no one can take away your freedom.
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Um... yes, yes it really can.
The legal standing of personhood, and the the status of human aren;t the same.
Using this definition, "personhood", I continue to point out the casualness of how this term is used. In a very specific and often used finding with a huge amount of case law to support it.
In most states, if not all, If I, plan to, then kill my pregnant wife, I will be charged with TWO murders. How is that possible if I didn't kill two people ? Why aren;'t all these double murder convictions overturned ?
Could it be that the definition of person ( and Blacks in in error, a newborn is a person, but cannot take up any responsibility) is strictly used ONLY for the purpose of abortion as was enumerated in Roe ?
I assure you it has been used as a defense in the double murder cases I cited, but those laws have never been found unConstitutional as far as I know.
Yes, you are pro choice, the choice being killing and not killing, with the killing being acceptable.
I can think of four quite separate and different criminal legal systems in the UK, it just depends where you happen to be. The description of criminal offences is so different as to be completely al;ien to each other. Honest.Which system ? You have two separate systems for criminal law ?
It's best to follow (as closely as possible) exactly the same sequences of words and actions, every time. For that reason I didn't mind training commercial detectives in various parts of the UK in various methods and working techniques, but these same delegates needed further (or previous) training by people well used to detaining, arresting, questioning, writing and taking statements and the compilation of evidence in those particular areas.Professional exactness, what is that when it is at home ?
It's all about mindset.Interview and interrogate when one is exchanging with a criminal suspect mean exactly the same thing. One is newer, one is older terminology.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act was made law in the mid 70's, and ever since then has been enforced. And after periods of months or years (according to some lesser offences with sentences of less than 2.5 years) a person's crimninal record is expunged, and although kept on record the offender may withold their past on some applications, but not on others.Rehabilitation has been studied in depth for years, it is essentially a myth. There are no significant differences in recidivism rates between being rehabilitated and punished. Rehabilitation costs more.
That's not what I believe.........., persons can be denied entry to various forces, employments and professions because of their past arrest records. ......... in some US States.Arrests without conviction are not passed on from one department to another via a ¨rap sheet¨. You may become aware of an arrest if an arresting officer in your dept. tells you, or you have personal contacts in another dept., but thatś it.
Oh we do want to bend over backwards to protect people........ who are innocent here until found guilty.Yes, I am aware of your police scandal. Political correctness and bending over backwards to protect those who don´t deserve protection, so very sad.
I know of several different senses for the word "license." Which one did you have in mind?I think it is high time for someone to come forth on this thread and make the distinction between 'freedom' and 'license'. What say ye?
[/QUOTE]I can think of four quite separate and different criminal legal systems in the UK, it just depends where you happen to be. The description of criminal offences is so different as to be completely al;ien to each other. Honest.
It's best to follow (as closely as possible) exactly the same sequences of words and actions, every time. For that reason I didn't mind training commercial detectives in various parts of the UK in various methods and working techniques, but these same delegates needed further (or previous) training by people well used to detaining, arresting, questioning, writing and taking statements and the compilation of evidence in those particular areas.
It's all about mindset.
We just don't interrogate suspects here.
If you might ever watch our police on the streets in reality telly, you;'ll notice how differently they speak and react when compared to many US law enforcers.
In parts of the US police are allowed to provoke and entrap offences, arrest them, and then badger (!!) and hound them ........ over here police can only ask questions to discover names, addresses, and for reasons why out, doing what etc..... at the second that they discover enough information to believe that an offence has been committed then they arrest that offence and take it into custody where a sargeant decides how to proceed.
We don't arrest people in the UK....... we arrest OFFENCES.
It's all about mindset. Slowly you would leave words like interrogation behind, believe me, and if you didn't then you'd be easy meat for any defence barrister....... easy....
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act was made law in the mid 70's, and ever since then has been enforced. And after periods of months or years (according to some lesser offences with sentences of less than 2.5 years) a person's crimninal record is expunged, and although kept on record the offender may withold their past on some applications, but not on others.
We believe in Rehabilitation here.
That's not what I believe.........., persons can be denied entry to various forces, employments and professions because of their past arrest records. ......... in some US States.
Not here........ and over here we do not have 'rap sheets'.
Oh we do want to bend over backwards to protect people........ who are innocent here until found guilty.
Your Human Rights look very wobbly, truly.
In one of our countries here in the UK we even have a special court verdict separate from Guilty and Not Guilty. Where a jury is very troubled by a defendant or the details of the alleged crime(s) but where it has not heard enough clear proof of guilt, rather than deliver either Guilty or Not uilty verdicts it can declare 'NOT PROVEN' and the defendant is acquitted. But the case can remain open for retrial in the event that new evidence might bring a more final 'Not Guilty' or 'Guilty' verdict.
Earlier I wrote to another that our human rights and rules of evidence and behaviour look much better than the US provides............. it sure does look like it to me.
Who were your UK Law Lecturers FGS?
Since you want specifics in responses, you had better give them in accusations. You gave nothing but your personal opinions on a plethora of issues. Quote scripture and verse from the NT, or give historical references for your accusations. Your opinions mean nothing, and false opinions can be dismissed with the same authority by true opinions.Please reformat post 211 if you want a line item response, which is how I generally rebut arguments. An argument is defeated by showing that its claims of fact are inaccurate or incomplete, or that its conclusion doesn't follow from the preceding argument. The typical method is the one you chose when I first offered this argument - fail to address the argument completely and repeat the claim it refuted. Perhaps you can explain why you did that, and are still doing it with the rendering aspect of the argument.
So please address the entire argument. You can begin with the first claim: "Christians and Muslims each revere a Semitic desert god, Yahweh and Allah, that is an angry, vengeful, jealous, judgmental, capricious, prudish, strongman that requires worship and submission." You both have angry gods, authoritarian gods that want to micromanage your sex life and punish you for your defiance - a quality that manifests in the clergy of both religions as they imitate this behavior.
Next, how is this incorrect to you: "Believers of both attend temples (Mosques or churches) and obey paternalistic, misogynisitic clergy." Your response to that appeared to be, "Second, Christians worship in churches. At least Protestants have no obligation to follow anyone or anything but the teachings of Christ," but it's not clear that it does,
Picking a handful of the list of ideas and quibbling over irrelevant distinction such as messiahs isn't a refutation of the very long list of similarities and the implication that these two bodies of thought are extremely similar, irrelevant difference notwithstanding. Yes, Christians wear crosses and Muslims crescent with a star. You can list hundreds of irrelevant differences such as the different calendars they use.
Also, calling an argument like that a rant is not a rebuttal. It's the kind of thing you do when you get emotional, which I interpret as you feeling threatened or overwhelmed. When you are more confident,you are more civil.
And I hope you'll eventually addressed the rendering argument, which is the part related to the thread topic - liberties and freedoms, in this case, why Christians in the West enjoy more of them than Muslims living in many Middle Eastern states, the difference not being attributable to the two religions, which I have pointed out are essentially the same on paper, but due to the influence of humanism on one but not the other. The argument is that you could have exchanged their holy books, and Christians and Muslims would still be living more or less as they are now.
Also, creeping theocrcay in the States is a threat to freedom. The Christians want to return to something more like these Muslim states to the extent that humanist safeguards can be defeated.
You like to bandy the word ignorance about pretty glibly, but you've got a blinding, faith based, confirmation bias fitted firmly on your head keeping you in the dark. How else could you have written, "As already stated, your opinions about Christianity are devoid of fact, Of islam, I agree with most."
Apparently you think I nailed Islam with that list, but that it didn't come close to Christianity. You can see how it all applies to the Muslims, but have no idea where I'm coming from saying that those ideas apply to both religions.
Think for a moment. You're saying that I have captured Islam well with that description, but not Christianity. Yet I know Christianity much better, and I brought the same resources to the evaluation of each.
You didn't.
My sense is that you're not being sincere here - that this is a sort of low level trolling activity. What do YOU understand by "a total way of life" ?
IMO it's a mistake to conflate values with dogma, no?
Again, I suspect foul play on your part
let me ask you this, let's say you have a sanitized translation of the Quran, who do you think are "those who have gone astray" in the seventh verse. Because whoever "they" are, Allah is forever angry with them.
Yep, in their own countryś the most illiterate, intolerant, violent people on the face of the earth.
Most of the hadith and koran are blatantly obvious, not subject to interpretation unless the one doing the interpretation is an abject liar.
If a muslim doesn´t accept the teachings of the founder of the religion, who says they must be followed to be a true muslim, are they muslims at all ?
Seventh verse: The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favour, not of those who have evoked Your anger or of those who are astray.
Nothing about Muslims vs non-Muslims there. Nothing about Allah being forever angry with anyone there either.
Sounds like you're projecting.Sounds like you are trying to argue something specific in a vague manner. Usually that isn't the best idea.
Arabic scholar, are you?Again, even given a sanitized translation,
Imprisonment - WikipediaYour rights can be taken away, but no one can take away your freedom.
The imam tells the majority illiterate ones what their books say. The NT is clear, as is the koran and hadith. I don´t understand their faith, I understand what the prophet wrote as from their god. If you read a sura in the koran, that says infidels should be beheaded, are you claiming you are incapable of understanding what is written and need a muslims interpretation ? How about in the hadith when ol mo is riding by on his horse, with his sword and covered in blood, when asked where he has been, he says killing infidels. You need a interpreter to tell you what this alleged eyewitness account means ?If they are illiterate, how can they read the Koran and Hadith with understanding?
Except, a lot of Christians do the same thing with their Bible. Why should Muslims be held to a different standard?
Who has the better right to claiming they understand their faith, Muslims or non-Muslims? With the exception, perhaps (and only perhaps), of some non-Muslim scholars of Islam, I say the former.
??Sounds like you're projecting.
Arabic scholar, are you?
Don't know where you picked up that we 'allow sharia'.Mt knowledge of the British system is just that British, I know a bit about the Scottish system, but not much. As to how you allow sharia to apply, I have no knowledge, though I know you do in some fashion.
I don't think anything.......... I can only guess at what your States do, but I have read that didn't States have differing legislation.You seem to think that different states in the US have different systems of law, they don';t.. They may have different penalties, some minor offences may be described differently, but homicide, robbery, assault,battery, kidnapping, burglary, grand theft, embezzlement, and any other felony are consistent across the country.,
You're repeating yourself.......... you've already written that all your States have the same systems of law.I don';t know where you get your information about US Officers, but you make a number of errors. First, Police procedures are standardized across the nation. Second, each state has a POST, Police Officer Standards and Training office which codifies Academy and ongoing training curriculum, Hours, and instructor standards.
Interesting...................As an example, the Dept of which I was Director, required a bachelors degree ( waived in very special circumstances), attendance at a 26 week full time academy, which was and is a stress academy. Meaning, pressure is put continually on the recruit in an effort to motivate them to quit. The stress in the field is not the place to determine if they can cope. After Academy completion they are teamed with a field training officer, who has the responsibility to supervise, observe, and mentor the Officer. Brief daily reports on the progress of the trainee are submitted, and a comprehensive weekly report is submitted with specific comments on contacts, corrections, and performance. The FTO can recommend field training for an Officer beyond the normal 26 week period, or, after 10 weeks, recommend that the Officer be terminated as unsuitable.
Because you don't understand our laws here.We do not arrest crimes, we arrest lawbreakers. You linguistic tricks here strike me as funny.
You're repeating yourself.As I told you, a suspect has no obligation to answer any questions that we ask, other than name. If they ask for a lawyer, we cannot ask them one single question without their lawyer present.
Here you say that you cannot hold suspects.............We cannot incarcerate them for a period of time without charges as your police can, nor can we repeatedly speak to them after they have declined to make a statement as your police can.
...and here you say that you can!One can only be taken into custody if a crime has been committed and there is probable cause to believe the person arrested committed the crime.
Our police are allowed to invite anybody to come and speak with them. Anybody is allowed to help police with their inquiries. And if the police arrest a suspect who then wants to give them informations, then they might, just might, tell the media about it.THere is no "helping the police with their inquiry's", you are either arrested for committing a crime or you are not arrested.
Bulldust.I can only assume you have been watching some 1930's movie when you say American Police can badger and entrap suspects. You cannot badger someone when you cannot speak to them. Entrapment is a clearly defined legal concept. No one can be convicted if their arrest was the result of entrapment. No arrest is valid if it is the result of entrapment. Use of entrapment by an Officer is grounds for dismissal.
Anybody here can have their dog put down if they wish, that's true, but you mention 'in your religion' when talking to me.You say our human rights as the police appear "wobbly". We say your intent to enforce the law fairly is "wobbly". We do not treat people differently, or carve out special treatment for certain people, because of ethnic background, or religion, as you do. The law applies equally to all, and if you break it, you go to jail. We don';t care that because dogs are unclean in your religion, so you killed one, we don't care, the cruelty to animals statute applies to you just like everyone else.
Huh? So far all the defendants who have had their cases dropped have been English and White.Sadly, your system, bends the law for certain groups, hence your rape scandal. muslims, muslim culture, bending the laws for them. Won't happen here.
Is that how they got rid of him?The professor who lectured on the British legal system had been a ranking FBI agent who was seconded to Scotland yard for a year while one of their ranking detectives was seconded to the FBI. He had a US law degree and took British university legal courses.