[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Wed Mar 27 21:31:21 UTC 2002


Also Sprach Craighead, Scot D <craighead.scot at vectorscm.com> on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:24:25PM PST
> >A law is the law,  unless a jury nullifys it.
> >
> >A court's job is to APPLY the law AS WRITTEN-
> >
> >NOT to INTERPRET the law.
> 
> This is exactly what I was saying as well.  Lawyers and activists want the
> courts to "interpret" the law so that they can bend it to fit their own
> purposes, such as giving a guilty person an acquittal or inacting law that
> no legislature that answers to voters would ever create.  Again, there is no
> reason that laws should be hard for a layman to understand.  If they are,
> it's to hide what they are doing.

You should have been less disingenuous and said "liberals" instead of
"activists."

Wil
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