[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

J.A.Henshaw jhenshaw at dsl-only.net
Wed Mar 27 21:59:44 UTC 2002


Russell Senior wrote:

>>>>>>"Scot" == Craighead, Scot D <craighead.scot at vectorscm.com> writes:
>>>>>>
> 
> Jeff> A law is the law, unless a jury nullifys it.
> Jeff> A court's job is to APPLY the law AS WRITTEN-
> Jeff> NOT to INTERPRET the law.
> 
> Scot> This is exactly what I was saying as well.  Lawyers and
> Scot> activists want the courts to "interpret" the law so that they [...]
> 
> You two are terminally confused.  Individual laws often conflict.
> Courts are there to figure out which one applies, or if a statute
> passed is illegal because it conflicts with the Constitution.  If they
> "get it wrong", the legislature is there to write a new law to try to
> fix it.  There is nothing surprising or difficult to understand about
> that.
> 
> 


Russell,  that is the Jury's job.

You are probably confused,  thinking that the way the system 
is,  is the way it was designed to work all along.

It isn't.




-- 
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what they 
will have for lunch.





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