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Ksradrik t1_j4tu2wy wrote

What the fuck is wrong with that continent?

Your first idea is to put innocent minors in jail, and the second is to just make them homeless???

Even the middle ages had orphanages, or at least churches.

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Darkwing_duck42 t1_j4tnl2z wrote

In Canada or well Ontario I think they are phasing this out because it's honestly the dumbest shit ever to put kids in jail.. they take em out camping now like completely roughing it for awhile where they kid of actually depend on an adult.

I'm really not sure what happens after and I'm sure there are still some jails but honestly you'd think it'd be more a mental health issue at a young age.

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jnx666 t1_j4td9mz wrote

My father worked in juvenile prisons at the end of his career. The stories he would tell me about unwanted kids being put in jails until they were 18 because the state (NY) had nowhere else to house them, (despite never having committed a crime) were heartbreaking.

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4mizvh wrote

>Sure if you ignore the concept of rule of law or the very common phrase "nation of laws, not a nation of men".

Those do not mean what you think they mean.

These concepts are generally understood to mean that all members of society are considered equally subject to legal codes and processes, but the state is explicitly not a member of society.

>And one that deserves to be nothing more than a footnote in the history of bad ideas that only ever served the people in power to the detriment of the people that they were supposed to be serving.

There's a reason it has survived everywhere in the world for thousands of years, sovereign immunity is simply necessary for states to conduct their duties.

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kerbaal t1_j4mgctx wrote

> Such concept has literally never existed

Sure if you ignore the concept of rule of law or the very common phrase "nation of laws, not a nation of men".

> Sovereign immunity on the other hand is an ages-old legal concept.

And one that deserves to be nothing more than a footnote in the history of bad ideas that only ever served the people in power to the detriment of the people that they were supposed to be serving.

> You're veering deep into sovereign citizen loony territory by even suggesting this.

Not even close; I am veering into the concept of government as a public service, for the people and by the people. The whole point of a constitution is that government authority shouldn't be absolute ever again.

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4lcln9 wrote

As well as you'd expect any war crimes prosecutions to go. The laws of war are not very strict to begin with, gathering evidence tends to be extremely challenging. Even locating known witnesses in such countries for interviews is a tremendously difficult task.

There have been more than a hundred people court-martialed in the US over war crimes during the conflicts you mention.

Some of the famous cases that come to mind were almost certainly not war crimes. Perhaps they should be, but according to the laws of war, they weren't.

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4larwq wrote

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4lad9r wrote

> concepts of [...] and that the law exists to restrict the government as much as it does us

Such concept has literally never existed. Sovereign immunity on the other hand is an ages-old legal concept.

You're veering deep into sovereign citizen loony territory by even suggesting this.

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4l9n0h wrote

>I had no idea that it was recoded and rereleased into the wild. Could it have been Israel? It definitely doesn't sound like something the US would do. Maybe Iran after discovering it tried to repurpose it?

This didn't actually happen. At best there was some disagreement between the responsible nations about how aggressive the spreading functionality should be.

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PhillipLlerenas t1_j4kvkgu wrote

Let’s ask Walter (Ernst) Burmeister, SS man who operated gas vans at Chelmno extermination camp and helped kill 152,000 Jews and was sentenced to a leisurely 3 and a half years in prison by a German court in Bonn:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chełmno_trials

Or SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger, gas chamber operator at Treblinka, who helped murder 800,000 Jews and was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Don’t worry tho….he served six years and was released on good behavior in 1971:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Münzberger

If I was a mass murdering anti semite I know exactly where in the planet I’d like to be after the war.

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muerto1964 t1_j4kufni wrote

A zero day exploit is an attack vector that nobody has ever seen before. No one has seen it and therefore we probably have little defense against it. 1 is rare. 9 in the same piece of malware is unheard of

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danderskoff t1_j4kocjk wrote

Anything is possible with 3-letter USA agencies. Also, people are pretty stupid sometimes with USB drives. Sometimes they dont understand that you can compromise a system by doing that and I know theres more to the story than just dumping random USB drives. We talked about this in college but that's really the only points I remember

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