From: Christian Wettergren <cwe@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 11:37:55 PDT
To: hallam@w3.org
Subject: Re: Code of Law
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| >"The basic idea behind the movement," says
| >University of Oregon history professor Richard Brown, "is
| >'popular sovereignty,' that people are above the law.
| >These people are alienated from the legal system. To some
| >extent it sounds like they're also trying to settle
| >personal scores."

I suddenly got very cold.

I thinnk the world has seen enough of 'revolutionary justice',
both in the Soviet Union; there are some fascinating passages
of Lenin about avoiding the bourgouise invented 'justice' concept, 
and that the revolution was well 'above' that whole thing,

and im Germany.

And I guess in current China.

When the people and the govering establishement has lost contact
this much, you're in for trouble.

(Ok, remember I'm a dumb Swede, that still happens to believe that
State and People doesn't have to be enemies. And I do believe in a
sensible dialog between different interest groups etc etc. Flame
away, I'm just dumb anyway. ;-))

/Christian