[WikiEN-l] Re: American concepts of justice (was: Rules vs. Anarchy)

[Dan Drake]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:25:34 UTC, "Poor, Edmund W" 
<Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> 
> Dan, would you please weave this insight into a Wikipedia article about
> America or Americans? Or start a new article called [[American concepts
> of justice]]? Or maybe put this into [[independent judiciary]], as part
> of a series on [[American government]]? 
>  
> I think it's important for the Wikipedia articles to reflect that fact
> that many Americans take just the attitude you described above: 
>  
>   that America "does something better than most of the world does" by 
>   "having an independent judiciary that is largely in the hands of
> people  
>   who understand the concept of due process of law and even approve of
> it"

Heh.  When I started reading this, I was half-expecting it (not having 
looked at the signature) to turn out to be a sarcastic attack.  Wrong 
again.  And it's not a bad suggestion.  But do I have time for the flame 
wars?  Consider the reactions to your quote of my remark--reactions which 
appear to come from countries that are "better than most of the world" in 
exactly the same way and have little or no reason to be sensitive on this 
issue; but it's not OK to make such a claim for the US.  

Not that I'd be damaged by being called names, but could a text ever be 
agreed on?