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Fr�n: ffml-bounce@anifics.com [mailto:ffml-bounce@anifics.com] F�r Hans
Holm
Skickat: den 28 maj 2004 12:59
Till: jahaj@bellsouth.net; ffml@anifics.com
�mne: [FFML] Re: [Fanfic][Ranma/SM] Relatively Absent: Chapter 9

Over the past 48 hours I have seen a plethora of replys to Mark's story
about the abuse that Nabiki and Akane take during the arrest scene and

how

people believe that something like that would not really happen.

I thought that their point was that it felt like the author punishing
characters, not that it couldn't possibly happen in reality.

THAT is how the justice system works outside
of the US from what I've seen.

I trust you're aware that the world, and its legal systems, is more varied
than simply
the US and Foreign Parts.

That it is. 

Anyone who wants to dispute this fact is
welcome to go overseas and get arrested for a crime to see how easy
crimminals have it here.

How about having a law degree, brief experience of working at a court and
knowing
what is legal to do to arrested people (as opposed to what may actually
be done to them) in one small part of "outside the US"?
This isn't an Americans Only mailing list, you know.

This is about to get seriously off topic...

There are no perfect legal systems. In the US, several people are still
rotting in jail because of convictions based on evidence that's been classed
as illegal. People have been trying to get them out for fifteen years, but
the PTB are scared that if it got out that they've been sitting on it for so
long, their asses are out of office.

Twenty years ago, someone close to me was charged for a rape he couldn't
have committed, and the principal defense witness (his wife) was threatened
with accessory charges in order to get her to shut up (they would have taken
her kids away). (And the plaintiff was bawled out by the prosecutor and
several "coaches" when she tried to drop the charges). That was in Sweden.

This was real life. What happens in fiction bothers me not at all,
especially in countries that have a reputation for being even more
draconian. Miscarriage of justice happens. Every d*mn day, every f***ing
where.

I don't really care whether the actions of the cops in this story were
called for, or if people think it's blatant punishment. I'll hold my
judgement until we see the fallout, or lack thereof. And I sure hope there
will be fallout in relation to the gravity of the act. (Remember that Ranma
can basically teleport at will, and IIRC, the Chiisuiton is still at large.
Spring of drowned angle worm?)

SP


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