"law enforcement equities" What an odd phrase. We have a criminal justice system in this country that is adversarial and is tilted in favor of the accused. Th

"law enforcement equities" What an odd phrase. We have a criminal justice system in this country that is adversarial and is tilted in favor of the accused. That's because our founders realized the immense power of the state could easily overrun any person it wanted to unless there were strict and tight guards on what they could do. These lawyers, who presumably should know much more about all of this than I do, continue to make cases that strike me as "There are bad people! Because they are really bad, we need to change the game to give us more power" But there have always been bad people. There always will be. There is no stopping that fact. It is part of being human. I wonder if these people realize that even if they continue to get their way, the only thing they'll end up doing is moving the really bad people from the private sector to the government. I get the feeling they slept through a large part of world history. I continue to hear arguments than sound reasonable. I continue to hear wonderfully-intricate arguments. What I've yet to hear is any of these yahoos recognize exactly what kinds of trade-offs they're pitching. I get the feeling I'm watching very poor workmen, focused on the tiny job in front of them instead of the ramifications of that job. I don't think we need to argue that many of these people are wrong as much as we need to argue that many of these people are incompetent. It doesn't bode well for the future.