"...Popper said that it is reasonable to assume that sooner or later
some rotten scoundrels will gain power. It's not important who they
will be precisely, but whatever your political views might be you must
agree that a likelihood of such an event is rather high. So whatever
law you want to have in your country, don't ask yourself the question
"how this law can be used in good hands". Ask the question "how this
law can be used when the filthiest, dirtiest, stupidest bastards will
rule my country (and sooner or later they probably will)". Only the
law that cannot be used to do anything wrong EVEN by the most vicious
ruler is truly good...."
On 4/22/09, Phillip Hallam-baker <hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
One of the commentators in a recent thread suggested that another person was
"beyond reproach"
That has been worrying me as a security person for a number of reasons. Not
least the fact that in my business nobody is ever beyond reproach
For the past eight years the establishment press in this country told us
daily that suggesting that the 'president' was not beyond reproach was
tantamount to committing treason
It seems to me that many of the social infrastructures that have developed
over the years by ietf members suffer from being dependent on being run by
individuals who are and must be beyond reproach
That is a very fragile model
If someone is beyond reproach they are beyond accountability
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