> 'Current law provides a range of options to protect society, he says. "It would be horrible if they started repealing laws and taking those options away."' T

> 'Current law provides a range of options to protect society, he says. "It would be horrible if they started repealing laws and taking those options away."' This quote also disturbed me, but for a slightly different reason: The prosecutor who is speaking is implying that the large number of laws give him a lot of options, i.e., he is (almost) free to persecute on whim. If there were fewer laws, he would be more constrained, have fewer options. The whole point of written law is to prevent government from prosecuting on whim. A written law forces government to use objective standards. Yet when there are so many laws that everyone is guilty, the effect is the same as when there are no laws: prosecutions are conducted on whim (aka police and prosecutorial "discretion".)