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phantom-thought
marginalia of the phantom city
About the author
Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K system. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet...Earth.
Ming: How peaceful it looks...[Causes an earthquake.]
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this...ah...Earth?
Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while, before annihilation. - Flash Gordon (1980)
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising Flair vs Bear #2 (by EA)
The Sixth Amendment says that in criminal prosecutions, the person accused is guaranteed a right to trial by jury. Government officials, however, insist that they can punish people who want to have a trial—“throwing the book” at those who refuse to plead guilty—which explains why 95 percent of the criminal cases never go to trial.
For the record, this legislation clearly violates the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments. Combine that with the “enhanced interrogation” techniques likely to be used on prisoners while they are being detained, indefinitely, without trial, without hearing the evidence against them, without even a full hearing before a civil court, and you have a violation of the 8th Amendment also.
Oh, and there’s this, from Article III, Section 3 of the main Constitution, without any stinkin’ amendments to worry about:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake.
