Are you also surprised that the FBI can shoot people dead, while most people wou...

zackbrown · on Sept 7, 2014

"Are you also surprised that the FBI can shoot people dead, while most people would get prosecuted for that?"

Hopefully the FBI won't be shooting people dead as a means of preparing a legal case—-that would be a pretty frightening 'ends justify the means' mindset. The crux of the matter is due process [0].

Granted, I'm not a lawyer nor am I well versed in legal processes: from a purely lay perspective, I just am seeing the FBI call tactic A a crime right before employing the same tactic A to indict someone else, and it smells like hypocrisy to me (honestly, more likely mistreatment of Weev than of DPR.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process [edit] add quote from parent comment

lifeisstillgood · on Sept 7, 2014

> Hopefully the FBI won't be shooting people dead as a means of preparing a legal case

It's certainly a novel approach to jury selection. Probably would be popular amongst a few State Bars.

knodi123 · on Sept 8, 2014

That would certainly be a very dire voire.

lifeisstillgood · on Sept 8, 2014

Congratulations! You have been nominated for worst pun on HN 2014. An awards dinner in Anchorage is scheduled for December and Jon Stewart will be compering!

:-)