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From: sblair@synoptics.com (Steven Blair)
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Subject: Re: How much is information really worth?
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.131335@synoptics.com>
Date: 10 Sep 90 20:13:35 GMT
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In article <1990Sep10.190108.29008@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
|> In article <1990Sep10.095011@bert.llnl.gov> howell@bert.llnl.gov
(Louis Howell) writes:
|> [BUNCH OF STUFF DELETED]...
|> 
|> Effective law enforcement, on the other hand, could deter crime
|> without running all over our constitutional rights. I'm sure lots of
|> us have ideas on that topic. We don't have to throw away our rights
|> just to catch a few bad apples.
|> 
|> --
|> "Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified
to."
|>                                               - Dan Bernstein


Define effective law enforcement. Perhaps, you meant Educated law
enforcement. Ask Steve Jackson, or many of the other *persecuted*
others whether they felt that the law enforcement was effective.

I submit that you're missing the whole point here. If law enforcement
was effective, the war on (drugs, alcohol, sex, prostitution, gambling)
would be won.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely is one result of a non educated
law enforcement community.

Deterence to crime is best shown in a Middle-Eastern country's
behavior:
break the law, loose a body appendage. That's deterrence to crime.

Unless you can crash educate the law enforcement authorities, you'll
never
achive any sort of parity.

As far as constitutional right, that's a joke. You no longer have any
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