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If you could design a justice system

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nyse

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Another thread supposed that you had your own nation, so here is a chance to start from the ground up on getting the job done right.

1. Who would impose an order standard and how would it be made?

2. How would you validate having people adhere to the standard?

3. How would your policing work?

4. How would your court process work?

5. What redress could the court impose?

You know the problems in the current rule-of-law system, how would you get rid of them?
 
1. The spank police and it would be made from laminated plastic.

2. With some sort of card. Laminated plastic probably.

3. Well, Mon-Fri Burt and Jerry would do most of it, but they could call in a temp to help when things got busy and get a student in during the summer to fetch lemonade. At the weekends, we'll operate an honour system where people keep track of all the crimes they commit on their card and then turn up for punishment on Monday. Because of the laminated nature of the card we'll be able to wipe them clean and reuse them next weekend.

4. There will be sheets on the gate allowing people to book them for one hour sessions, no more than two hours in a row per session with at least a two hour gap between individual sessions.

5. There will be no redress. They're the spank police, not the fashion police. The judge will wear red velvet and work out the number of spanks with an easy to use laminated punishment wheel. You turn the inner crime wheel around until the offence matches up to the day of the week it was committed on and the window will reveal the number of spanks to be issued. Thursdays are wild.

I think I would get rid of the current problems by flushing them down the toilet.
 
1. The squirrels.

2. By the bushiness of their tails.

3. I'd have squirrels - known as the ratatask force - running up and down every tree in the kingdom to keep track of everyone.

4. It wouldn't. They're squirrels, sheesh.

5. If anyone harms another living squirrel, the police will have his nuts.

As for the current problems, I'd bury them under a tree. If I can't find them come wintertime - problem solved.
 
This is the most amusing thread to date!
1. Who would impose an order standard and how would it be made?
I would. It would depend on my mood. I would take 5 days off a month for making laws because, well, that's just unfair when I'm in "that mood".

2. How would you validate having people adhere to the standard?
I kind of like the laminated card idea!

3. How would your policing work?
No police. That's so old-fashioned! I'd just have "confession" each day for different districts. If your confession is against my latest laws then you pay the penalty.

4. How would your court process work?
The confessionist would pass along the offense to me where I would decide, based on the level of attraction of the defendant, what the punishment would be. I would take it easy on the better-looking people because I wouldn't want to harm beauty. If they exceed my standards for "ordinary" and are extremely attractive, they may choose an ugly person to take their punishment for them.

5. What redress could the court impose?
Armani, naturally.

You know the problems in the current rule-of-law system, how would you get rid of them?
In all seriousness, I would do away with nit-picky laws like making a grown adult wear their seatbelt or not allowing a person who is old enough to join the military and die for their country to drink an alcoholic beverage. More or less have laws that get back to the basics. You know, thou shalt not kill, steal, etc. and do away with those that infringe on a person's right to choose their path in life. If they want to gamble all of their money away on black and odd online, more power to them. Just don't come to me for a handout. If they refuse to wear their seatbelt and end up paralyzed, they made their own bed and must lie in it.
 
BeerWench13 said:
I would do away with nit-picky laws like making a grown adult wear their seatbelt
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Totally with you on that. Although with the proviso, that should you be killed whilst not wearing a seatbelt, it’s your next-of-kin that have to scoop the pieces into a plastic container rather than the emergency services…
 
What if your flying corpse lands on a baby? Who'll pay the reparations so the mother can buy a new baby? You think it's easy now, but there'll be baby squashing insurance companies popping up all other the place that'll need regulating, and then a whole bunch of people whose babies were squashed by uninsured corpses bitching and whining about it.

I think it's simpler just to ban cars and make everyone travel by pogo stick.
 
I think the current method in U.S. is sound enough at current technological level. As a foreign born, I do not see a better justice system. I see lot of failure and reason for the main failure is bribery.

For the current system to change, I can only imagine if a totally different technology gets developed, such as a time warp machine that you could look back in time (like in the movie called Deja Vu) or if possible to implant a 'black box' type chip into every newborn to monitor their whereabouts and their heart rates - a combination of gps and lie detection/or something similar - system that records when and where one may have been at, and was doing.

Even the seat belt law, which I have been ticketed for and fought against, is a law I do respect to a certain point - the current system, which may have its faults, but, to summarize, I can only say: we're only human.
 
Hats would be INTRINSIC to my system. If you were planning on committing a crime I would make it be the law that you had to wear a hat with the name of the crime you were about to commit on it.

Career criminals could purchase hats with laminated cards on the front so they could change the name of their crime more easily. Or they could steal the hats. But only if they already owned a 'HAT THEFT' hat, otherwise it would be an illegal theft.

I will own the sole rights to manufacture and distribution of laminated cards.
 
So, a person’s ability to legally commit crime would be limited by the width of their forehead? That would make Jude Law an increasingly dangerous man.
 
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