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Without public knowledge and pressure, there is no check on authoritarian abuse and the law has no teeth.
by hopler 8y ago
Without public knowledge and pressure, there is no check on authoritarian abuse and the law has no teeth.
- dahart 8y agoMaybe, but that's not what I asked. Don't habeas corpus laws provide public access to a (perhaps private) legal review? When do laws require sharing results with the public, as the GP comment claimed? Can there be checks on authoritarian abuse that don't require public dissemination? Is the threat of publicity exactly the same thing as a requirement for publicity?
- wbl 8y agoImagine a country where the police arrest people and they vanish in the middle of the night, with no way to determine what their status is.
- HarryHirsch 8y agoThere is no need to imagine a country where mugshots are freely available, even is that person is later released without charge, that already exists, and we know what the practice does.
- 1ris 8y agoIsn't this standard procedure in most western democracies?
- dahart 8y agoHow does your question relate to publicity at all? Habeas corpus covers that situation, assuming the country you're imagining complies with habeas corpus standards.