pro_se -- just to clarify a bit -- the prior logic-chain argument/precedent is how the law itself is construed/constructed and developed/elaborated -- which law itself is pretty clearly distinguished and distinct from the specific facts gained through investigation that are in evidence in any given case -- it's not rather than; our system is at least supposed to proceed in each case by getting the facts of the case into evidence and then applying the law to the facts as found -- there are of course any number of ways in which given cases or classes of cases can be and are gotten wrong in our system, including by deliberate abuses of the system -- but I don't see any quite that sort of conundrum of fragility portending self-immolation built into it, even if and as it's properly under pressure to reform such abuses as have become embedded in/endemic to it
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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