Comments on: Marcus Einfeld on Fahrenheit 9/11

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:09:45 +0000

And another thing Evil. The police in your example have much more than a kilo of heroin of their own. They make it by the tonne, and fund research into making even harder stuff. They themselves are addicted to the stuff. They sell it to friends; a very profitable sideline. But if someone else tries to get their hands on a few grams, they come down on them like a tonne of bricks. Sounds like a corrupt police force to me.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:11:47 +0000

That’s right, evil. It’s a wicked world we live in, but the accusers and the accused are guilty of the same kinds of state-sanctioned murder and torture (and the bathroom was clean anyway, as you would expect after 12+ years of surveilance).

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:44:15 +0000

Tim & evil both have it wrong. Police would have lawful authority to make a search, even acting on incorrect information. A better analogy would be a viginante mob doing the searching and arresting, after the proper authorities already conducted a search, and failed to find illegal activities.

By: Tim Lambert

Tim Lambert — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 22:38:52 +0000

Not too clear on this “witness” concept are you, Evil?
A witness would be someone who has actually seen the heroin. But no-one actually had seen it, and the ones who said they had were lying.

By: Tim Lambert

Tim Lambert — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:43:40 +0000

Gee, Evil, you’re not real good with this analogy thing, are you?
Try this: A couple of unreliable witnesses say the criminal has heroin in the house, so the police get a search warrant. The occupant does not resist and they search the house. They don’t find anything. The police chief insists that there is heroin there anyway and attacks the house without a warrant, resulting in much bloodshed. Further searches fails to find heroin and reveal that the witnesses made up the story about the heroin.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:08:21 +0000

Evil
I’m pretty sure he’s retired from the Bench (thank God).

By: matt byrne

matt byrne — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:42:57 +0000

would you like to make an argument of your claim or are you just settled with that statement?