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It is the logic of being angry that someone (a prosecutor) breaks the law and they don't pay, the taxpayer do. No one is saying the prosecutor should have won.
by Evbn 14y ago
It is the logic of being angry that someone (a prosecutor) breaks the law and they don't pay, the taxpayer do. No one is saying the prosecutor should have won.
- jlgreco 14y agoIt is difficult because I have heard this line of thought many times before when the person saying it did think that the person awarded money should not have won. I lived in a school district adjacent to the Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania in 2004/2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School...) and I cannot count the number of times I heard people (people I knew to be ardent creationists that supported the defense) complaining about the award because the money was just coming from tax payers. The message, as they expressed it, was not that we should be angry at the school-board for causing such a waste of money, but that we should be angry at the Plantiffs and the ACLU for 'wasting' that money. (Yeah, that is a crazy position. That was par for the course though.)